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• I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Films
  • Roles
  • Image

• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Care
  • Human

• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Something

• Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Women
  • Charm

• There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Start
  • Voices
  • Geneva

• I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Important
  • Think
  • Political

• The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Great
  • Art
  • Dreams

• It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Learning
  • Like
  • Baseball

• Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Remember
  • Help

• Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Think
  • Day
  • Always

• With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Society
  • Years
  • Democratic

• Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Acting

• There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Calm
  • Players
  • Korean

• Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Done
  • Law
  • Hand

• The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Party
  • Proud
  • Journey

• If I had been out in the industry instead of being a college kid who had an idea for another T-shirt, I would have been too scared to do anything.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • College

• He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• Give me coffee! I'm going to write!

  

  Olavo Bilac
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Coffee

• When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

  

  Sherman Alexie
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