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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

• What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Exercise
  • Habit

• 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

• It likes it when you don’t depend on it. It will reward you every time you don’t act needy. It will chase you if you act like other things (passion, friendship, family, longevity) are more important to you. If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you're with that person.

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Memories

• They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

  

  Mark Goddard

• I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry - eating in late September.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Breakfast
  • September
  • Blackberries

• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

  

  Mencius
  • Friendship
  • Bodies