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We shed the skins of who we used to be!

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• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • History
  • Small
  • Politics

• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Mean
  • Person

• I have never sought the reason why I write.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Never

• It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Easy

• Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Architecture
  • Logic
  • Often

• When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Friend
  • Fire

• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Woman

• As weird as it is it to see yourself on screen, it made everything we've been through seem very real. And, well, London is only weeks away now.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Real
  • Weird
  • Yourself

• All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Good
  • Work
  • Growth

• I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Cigarette
  • Nine

• As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Death
  • Limit
  • Humiliating

• I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • World
  • Earth
  • Best

• What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • High
  • Worry
  • motivation

• 'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Think
  • Listening

• Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Love
  • Jesus
  • Obedience

• Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Life
  • Design
  • Planning

• Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Work
  • Beginning

• I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Great
  • Love
  • Done

• When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Kids
  • Firsts
  • Used

• The crowning blessing of a true visitation of the Holy Spirit is a mighty harvest for the kingdom of God.

  

  Arthur Wallis
  • God
  • Blessing
  • Harvest

• We shed the skins of who we used to be!

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
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  • Skins