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Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

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• If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Want
  • Change
  • Doing

• The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • God
  • Job

• One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Reading
  • Serious
  • Write

• No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Secret
  • Ever

• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
  • Find
  • Maybe

• I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Tongue

• I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • California

• Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Up
  • Career
  • Language

• I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Awareness

• If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Management
  • Partner
  • Data

• The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Freedom
  • Single
  • Spiritual

• I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Stories
  • Writer
  • Magazines

• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Wife

• I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Fearless

• I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Box

• He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Music

• When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Le malheur est que, parfois, des souhaits s'accomplissent, afin que se perpétue le supplice de l'espérance.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• It's an extraordinary thing to do, to go into the military and to serve your country.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Country
  • Military

• Seth hustled over. “What’s the password?” “Passwords are for sissies,” Warren’s muffled voice responded. “Works for me,” Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Works
  • Responded
  • Sissies

• If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Works
  • Esteem
  • Idolatry

• Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Way
  • Military
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