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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

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• Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Walking

• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Stop
  • Face

• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • You
  • Run

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Angry

• That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Kind
  • Mean
  • Vicious

• To create a work of art is to create the world.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Good
  • Change
  • Vision

• I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Think
  • Enjoy

• After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Home
  • Political
  • Oil

• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • God
  • Real

• We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Long

• Let's go dance under the elms:Step lively, young lassies.Let's go dance under the elms:Gallants, take up your pipes.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Up
  • Dance

• I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I just went, '*cough, cough, cough* You wanna egg rorr?'

  

  Margaret Cho

• If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Government
  • Situation
  • March

• I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • Art
  • Beginning

• I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

  

  Matthew McConaughey

• I'm on Twitter, I'm on HuffPo, just any website - you go down a rabbit hole. You start out on HuffPo, then you get a link to this, you get a link to that. Or an article, or a blog. One thing leads to another.

  

  Danielle Schneider

• Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

  

  John Calvin
  • Beginning
  • Humility
  • Intelligence