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We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

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• Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Best
  • Passionate
  • Courageous

• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fashion

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Child

• We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Hope
  • You

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everyone
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Tough
  • Islam
  • Original

• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Money
  • Age
  • Society

• One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • President
  • Difficult

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friends
  • Stupid
  • Friendship

• Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

  

  Naomi Weisstein
  • World
  • Women
  • True

• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Never
  • Successful
  • Give Up

• I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Learning
  • Tea

• My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Real
  • Reality

• Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Perspective

• The Grammys to me, well, that's my peers. That's the industry thinking what I do is good.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Good
  • Thinking

• My aim and my passion is to own and breed race horses.

  

  Kylie Bax
  • Passion

• I don't know what it is, but French men love me.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Men

• I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

  

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher
  • Different
  • Age

• We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

  

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