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Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

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• It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Religion
  • Morality
  • Simply

• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Single

• 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cold

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • English
  • Mother`s

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Work
  • Looking

• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Peace

• You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Why
  • She
  • Fashion

• There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Play
  • Bible
  • Video Games

• I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Peace
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Wolf

• It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Help
  • Desire

• I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Always
  • Things
  • Manager

• As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • War
  • History
  • Democracy

• Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

  

  Jacques Delors
  • Good
  • American
  • Bad

• I have the privilege of working with our in-house design studio, called Samara, and our humanitarian team, called Human. Samara is thinking about the future of Airbnb, and Human is working on ways to leverage our platform outside the cause of day-to-day business.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Future

• My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Realize

• You don't have to resolve every problem of the book at the end, but you do have to resolve some.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Book

• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

  

  Annie Baker
  • People
  • Silence

• Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

  

  Javan
  • Great