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• Art is the job of the privileged.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Art
  • Job
  • Privileged

• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • People
  • Me
  • Years

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Thought
  • Design

• I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • End

• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Try
  • Down
  • Dumb

• I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Up
  • Ambition

• Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

  

  Olin Miller
  • High
  • Man
  • Rich

• If the scope of freedom and respect for the rule of law shrinks around the world, the likelihood of war within and between nations increases, and our own freedoms will eventually be threatened.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • War
  • Freedom

• So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Fear

• Imams and muftis and kathis sat here on cushions, turbaned elders who had risen above the squalor of the flesh. The heat was tamed by wide-eyed boys with feathery fans. One of the muftis much admired one of these boys, and he stroked his buttocks with a gentle hand. The smell of the holy was wafted towards entering Bonaparte, who said with care:

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Hand

• Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Nature
  • Optimistic

• I do not believe in planning.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Believe
  • Planning

• For 'The Grace of Kings,' I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of the complexity of the politics and the 'surprisingly modern' reactions of the historical figures to recurrent problems of state administration.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Chinese

• Television is intensely personal.

  

  Jessica Savitch

• My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Eyes
  • Mouth
  • Nose

• I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Dark

• The journey is over. Love to all.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Love
  • Journey

• In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Women
  • American
  • Space

• I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

  

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