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It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Problems

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • World
  • India

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Crazy
  • Never
  • Too Much

• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • May
  • Remember
  • Strong

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Roles
  • Been
  • Only

• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Morning

• What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • You
  • Counts
  • Frame

• The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Being
  • Musicians
  • Intensity

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Words
  • Happiness

• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Future
  • Myself

• We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Being

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • Job
  • Together

• I always tend to think, even in residential projects, about what a space is being asked to do - where is it located, what are the circumstances, where can I attack the problem, so to speak. How can you create a narrative for people moving through it? How can you convey its character?

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • People
  • Character
  • Space

• Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • School
  • Justice

• Steve Carell is good. I like him. Who else? Here's another depressing thing: animation has kind of taken over, too. You know, 'Family Guy?' I watch that because the guy is good.

  

  Joe Flaherty
  • Good
  • Family
  • Guy

• Old is the new sexy.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Sexy

• It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book.

  

  Jay Asher
  • School
  • Book
  • Funny