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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

• It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Life

• I would never really listen to my own music or whatever, but I write music so I can deal with things and I hope that some people can relate in that. Maybe help people, or just bring a smile to their face or make them feel cool or something.

  

  Zachary Wayne Farro
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Culture

• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Mind
  • Wife
  • Holiday

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

  

  Jan Koum