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Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

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• I don't get star-struck at all.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Star
  • Get

• The earth laughs in flowers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flowers

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fear

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Support

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Money
  • Growing

• Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Understand
  • Sciences
  • Inventions

• Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Art
  • Theatre
  • First

• Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Human
  • Dimensions
  • Refugees

• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Immortality

• Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Him
  • Phone
  • Yesterday

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Great
  • Feeling

• A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • People
  • Violence

• Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Chance
  • Laws
  • Silent

• I think that if companies build for diversity from the beginning from the ground up, that's definitely the ideal state for how to build diversity into your company.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Up
  • Beginning
  • Diversity

• I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work

• Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Up
  • Great
  • Perspective