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As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

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• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Successful

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Me

• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Night

• Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Own

• By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Free
  • Hands
  • Censorship

• If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Want

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Future

• You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Media
  • Social Media

• If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Like
  • Big

• We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

  

  Angeles Mastretta
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot. See, I just said I need to be quiet, but that's not the kind of communication I mean. I mean expressing myself or even standing up for myself. I can sometimes be very passive.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Communication
  • Quit

• The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.

  

  Babyface
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Quality

• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Success
  • Fool
  • Succeed

• You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

  

  Jane Green
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