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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

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• Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Wife

• I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Wish
  • Sin
  • I Wish

• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Write

• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Night
  • Best
  • Ideas

• These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Kind
  • Project
  • Days

• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Street
  • Trees
  • Other

• I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Independent

• After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Release

• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Listening

• Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Excitement
  • Intensity

• I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Water

• Language does not make one an elite.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Language
  • Does
  • Elite

• My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Me

• We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Teach

• Jesus is the mediator of justice; Mary obtains for us grace; for, as St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, St. Bernardine of Siena, St. Germanus, St. Antoninus, and others say, it is the will of God to dispense through the hands of Mary whatever graces he is pleased to bestow upon us. With God, the prayers of the saints are the prayers of His friends, but the prayers of Mary are the prayers of His mother.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Mind
  • Mean

• I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying

• To say that he hated it would be unjust, for, like most sensible people, he held hatred to be an elixir far too precious to be wasted on trivial matters.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Hated
  • Precious
  • Trivial

• All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

  

  Dan Webster
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