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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

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• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Up
  • God
  • Guy

• People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Pretty
  • Attention
  • Serious

• I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Children
  • Night
  • Words

• Now, metaphorically, I sit at any table that I want. I can sit with the jocks, I can sit with the gang members, I can sit with the politicians, I can sit with the CEOs. My brand can fit anywhere.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Gang

• With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?

  

  Jim Rash
  • Morning
  • Saturday

• I remember watching 'Quantum Leap' when I was a kid with my family, so I think that's fun and nostalgic.

  

  Matt Lanter
  • Family
  • Remember
  • Fun

• You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Positive
  • Stress

• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Family
  • Game
  • Black

• I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Up
  • Job
  • Age

• I like a woman who has a vocabulary larger than 'shoes' and 'handbags.' But a nice pair of legs to go in the shoes is always good, too.

  

  Kirk Acevedo
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Shoes

• On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

  

  Betsy Beers

• Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.

  

  John Dickerson

• These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Heart
  • Done

• 'In God We Trust.' It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased: it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. And in a measure it is true - half the nation trusts in Him. That half has decided it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • God
  • Believe
  • True

• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Control

• One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Silence
  • Thing
  • Repeated

• In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

  

  Rumi
  • Silence
  • Eloquence