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• I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Boyfriend

• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Important
  • Done
  • Service

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Family
  • Right

• I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Wish
  • Model
  • Tall

• I really hate rubber ducks, actually.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Hate
  • Really
  • Ducks

• We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Iceland

• We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Me

• The emphasis of the men’s group was on understanding, coping, changing the situation and then, if all else failed, getting out; the emphasis of battered women’s groups is on getting out first, and second, locking up the problem (the man).

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.

  

  Edward Carpenter
  • May
  • Animal

• It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.

  

  Ali Khamenei

• I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Financial

• If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

  

  Enrico Colantoni

• When it comes to photo shoots, there was a clear moment for me when I thought, 'I'm going to have to enjoy this because it's going to be a part of what I do.'

  

  Clemence Poesy

• I came to success very late in life.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Life
  • Success

• Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

  

  Lily James
  • School
  • Drama

• I understand the politics of Washington, D.C. You need to hold firm, you need to work with your colleagues, and you need to throw elbows.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • Work

• So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.

  

  Chad Lowe
  • Important
  • Value

• I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • People

• All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

  

  Edward Norton
  • People
  • Fun

• The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

  

  James Thurber
  • Up
  • Dog

• I am in love with Larry David.

  

  Kathy Griffin

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  Jef Raskin