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• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Where

• Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Goal
  • Conversation

• Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Disease
  • Environmental
  • Only

• I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Bed
  • Obsession
  • Ship

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• You have to be proud of who you are.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Proud
  • Who

• Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • World
  • Free
  • Action

• 'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Name

• The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • War
  • Environment

• We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Green

• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Different
  • Sing
  • Breath

• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Times
  • U.S.
  • Some

• If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Money
  • Voice

• Almost every person that I had a preconception of, I was wrong. With Edward Teller, I was right. He was an autocrat and a technocrat, with no feeling for humanity.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Feeling
  • Humanity

• I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

  

  Dennis Lehane
  • Up
  • World
  • Father

• I know what it's like to not know where you're going or how to get there. I know what it's like to have no one around you who can teach you how to be what you hope to become.

  

  T.I.
  • Hope
  • Knows
  • Teach

• Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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