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• When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Love
  • Want

• For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Play

• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Month

• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Good
  • Silly
  • Dumb

• It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Work
  • American

• California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Woman
  • Easy
  • California

• Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • God
  • Day
  • Politics

• With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Story
  • Facts

• The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Important
  • Simple

• Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Democracy
  • Process

• You trust them (white Americans), and I don't. You studied what he wanted you to learn about him in schools. I studied him in the streets and in prison, where you see the truth.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Truth
  • Trust

• Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fall
  • Back
  • Minutes

• 'The fellow with a face rather like a walnut.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• ‘Don't you like this hat?‘‘No, sir.‘‘Well, I do,‘ I replied rather cleverly, and went out with it tilted just that merest shade over the left eye which makes all the difference.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I'd be honored to be in the same sentence as Tom Hardy. I've been a twin since the day I was born - fraternal, but we look a lot alike - so I've already been mixed up with another man my entire life.

  

  Logan Marshall-Green
  • Life
  • Up
  • Twin

• And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.

  

  Petrarch
  • Live
  • Grief
  • Self-contempt

• I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Goal
  • Discipline
  • Perfectionist

• For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • School
  • Focus

• In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Expression
  • Satisfaction
  • Lady

• When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product.

  

  Jan Koum