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Manhood is tested by trial, and valour climbs unterrified the rocky path and difficult ascent that leads to glory.

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• Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Live
  • City
  • Same

• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Best
  • Try
  • Performance

• I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Weird
  • Body

• A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Money
  • Business
  • Today

• I'm as honest as I can be.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Honest
  • I Can

• The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Diversity
  • Conversation

• We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • May
  • Risk

• I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Heart
  • Sunshine

• If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

  

  Preston Brooks
  • Why
  • Power

• You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

  

  David Caruso
  • Success
  • Fear

• There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

  

  Luke Perry
  • World
  • Real
  • Hand

• It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

  

  Frank Ocean

• There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

  

  Plato
  • World
  • Power
  • Political

• In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Yourself
  • Too Much
  • Smell

• Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Spiritual
  • Practice
  • Courage

• There was a great sag in employment beginning in 2000.

  

  David Autor
  • Great
  • Beginning

• For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?

  

  William Cowper
  • Liberty
  • Virtue
  • Found

• Manhood is tested by trial, and valour climbs unterrified the rocky path and difficult ascent that leads to glory.

  

  Silius Italicus
  • Path
  • Glory
  • Manhood