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A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

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• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Faith
  • Christ

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Society
  • You
  • Educated

• A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Crazy
  • Ignorant
  • Newspaper

• North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Poverty
  • Slavery
  • Rights

• What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Disappointed

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Family
  • Dream
  • City

• I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • World
  • Mind
  • Brain

• Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different
  • Woman
  • Things

• Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Human

• Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Doing
  • Last

• I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Alive
  • Disney

• Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Always
  • Promises

• I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Movie
  • Alone

• I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Picture
  • Feels
  • Surface

• Oregonians expect the state to prioritize the health and well-being of them and their families.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Health
  • Expect
  • Wellbeing

• Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

  

  Quintilian
  • Work
  • Talent
  • Student

• Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Care
  • Ignorance
  • Apathy

• One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

  

  George Saintsbury
  • Facts
  • Name
  • Languages

• I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Hair

• A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

  

  Evan Esar
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