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• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Small
  • Hand

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Day
  • Start
  • Television

• I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Different
  • Travel

• Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bad
  • Future
  • Past

• I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Hate
  • Place
  • Grave

• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Only
  • Easter

• There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Time
  • Me
  • Marriage

• It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • Home
  • Remember

• I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Important
  • Money
  • Fortune

• I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Vocal
  • Harmonies
  • Dictate

• Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Nature
  • Animal

• With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open—a woman’s hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road—and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Water

• America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

  

  Bill Frist
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• I take my part in the food chain very seriously.

  

  Dominique Swain
  • Food

• It was football I enjoyed most. When I moved to L.A. to become a stand-up comedian, I thought it might be a good comedy hook to also be the punter for USFL club The L.A. Express, so I started practicing for the tryouts. Luckily, my stand-up took off, and I didn't need to do it.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Comedy

• Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

  

  Althea Gibson

• I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Eyes
  • Tears

• They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • People
  • Truth
  • War

• We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.

  

  Bunker Roy