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When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

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• It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Weird
  • Idea
  • Media

• One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Looks

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Like
  • Personal

• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Kid
  • Dancing
  • Australia

• Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Brilliant
  • Actress

• You've got to change with the public's taste.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Change
  • Taste

• What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • People
  • Different
  • Ideas

• There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Life
  • Stress
  • Choice

• And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Start

• Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Common
  • Very
  • Cows

• I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Work
  • Game
  • Simple

• I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Eyes
  • Thoughts
  • Tired

• Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Forever

• Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • History

• How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

  

  Jack McDevitt

• Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Bitter

• People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • People
  • Wife
  • Dope

• The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Celebrity

• If I'm being honest, I'm sad even right now because I've been Darth Maul for several years and we've been through a lot together, me and that guy. Saying goodbye was - there was some sorrow but there was a great satisfaction in having that closure. And in a weird way, I think Darth Maul shared my satisfaction with that.

  

  Samuel Witwer
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Honest

• Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Alone
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• Anything you can do to stay organized and free up the creative side of your brain is a good thing.

  

  Chuck Hogan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Free

• Anyone who has ever accomplished anything of any consequence, didn't know how to get what they want, they only knew that they were going to get it. You don't know how to do something, until after you've done it. Our problem is, we set goals to do what we think we can do or what we've already done. There's no inspiration in that.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Problem
  • Inspiration
  • Goals

• When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

  

  Byron Katie