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• If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Want
  • Name
  • Charity

• I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • College
  • Really
  • Seriously

• I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Women
  • Family
  • Drama

• I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Work
  • House
  • Never

• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism

• I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Career
  • Goal
  • Win

• I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Size
  • Jeans

• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand
  • Fire
  • Carry

• I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Protect

• You are the sun,You are the rainThat makes my life this foolish game.You need to knowI love you so.And I'd do it all again and again.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Life
  • Game
  • Sun

• I'm half an hour late, I'll come back tomorrow.

  

  Claude Monet

• We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Up
  • Today
  • Space

• Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • King

• Things take longer to happen than you think they will and then they happen faster than you think they will.

  

  Lawrence Summers

• Quotes of Calder (1932), from Abstraction-Création, Art Non Figuratif, no. 1, 1932; Republished in: Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) Calder: Sculptor of Air, Motta, 2009. p. 111 & p. 222

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Art
  • Air

• 'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'

  

  Connie Willis
  • Women
  • She

• I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Heart

• The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Political

• With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Great
  • Kids

• Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Good
  • Alive
  • Tests

• I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our foreign policy. When they're educated, they tend to give back more to their communities, to rise out of poverty in a way that is good for their families and their communities and, ultimately, their countries.

  

  Jeanne Shaheen
  • Good
  • Poverty
  • Empowering

• Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.

  

  Simon Rattle
  • Good
  • Retire
  • Conductors