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Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.

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• There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Kids
  • First
  • New

• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • School
  • Way

• There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Live
  • Family

• Let me tell you that I love the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • You
  • Tell
  • Let

• I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Live
  • Earth

• When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Learn
  • Batman

• Truth is the light So you never give up the fight.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Light

• Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Sex

• I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Environment
  • Green

• I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Family

• We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Lost

• If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Meditation

• It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Up

• I live in the moment.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Live

• I don't want to, in the last three minutes of my life, know that I lived it for somebody else.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Life

• No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.

  

  Widad Akrawi
  • Positive
  • Matter
  • Forget

• The campaign was disgusting. It split on religious lines. It was one of those moments when you thought that ‘if politics is going to be like this, I’d like to go and do something else’.

  

  Alex Salmond
  • Moments
  • Religious
  • Campaign

• The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

  

  Anna Godbersen
  • Loves
  • Headiest

• Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Truth
  • Remember
  • Person

• Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
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