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• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • People
  • Life
  • Doing

• Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Vintage
  • Some People

• The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • You
  • Stop
  • Day

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• When I won't have work, say, after seven or eight years, or when I retire, I can't imagine leaving Hyderabad, because I love this city that much.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • City
  • Retire

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Earth
  • Kindness

• In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men

• Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Crying

• Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People

• I have a couple of best friends, and I don't think I would live with them. It definitely... certain people can't live together, and I think that it could potentially put a lot of strain on the relationship or friendship.

  

  Alexandra Chando
  • People
  • Live
  • Friends

• I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?

  

  Kristen Bell
  • School
  • Stop
  • Catholic

• Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Dark

• My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Grandmother

• We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Respect

• I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the United States and Russia and between how our governments operate versus other governments operate, where those distinctions aren't made.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Government
  • Europe
  • Russia

• Examine well your blood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blood
  • Wells

• We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Suffer
  • Qualities
  • Extreme

• The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Men
  • Numbers
  • Extraordinary