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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Wait
  • Minute

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Value
  • Rich
  • Surprised

• I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Book
  • Food
  • Chef

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we're going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America

• I'm not surprised, motherfuckers.

  

  Nate Diaz

• Every episode of 'The Conversation' was created to be a platform for women, to connect women, and to allow women's voices to be heard as much as possible. That's why I launched that show on a television network and online simultaneously.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Women
  • Why

• I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Different
  • School
  • Pretty

• You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Mad

• You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • Perspective

• I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • People
  • Country
  • Father

• Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.

  

  Freddie Freeman
  • Fun

• The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

  

  Peggy Noonan
  • Earth
  • Moving

• I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

  

  James Marsh
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

  

  Mo Udall
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Ability

• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Life
  • Friendship

• We don't have a caucus, because we differ on so many views. Some of us are pro-choice, some are not. We'll take the issue of drilling, for example: Lisa Murkowski would want to drill in ANWAR, Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, and most of us would say no, and so we don't. But we get together once a month for dinner, and we have three rules: no memos, no staff, and no leaks; and we get together for friendship. In fact, we're having a dinner tonight. We just have drinks and talk about life and times.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Life
  • Together
  • Friendship

• I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it.

  

  Shah Rukh Khan
  • Wear
  • Stardom
  • Trappings

• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

  

  Mencius
  • Friendship
  • Bodies