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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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• Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • World
  • Love

• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • May

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Need
  • Economy
  • Bank

• I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Happy
  • Daughter
  • Yourself

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Business
  • Driving
  • Horizon

• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Try

• Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • You
  • Just
  • Appreciate

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Win
  • Legacy

• I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Success

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

• I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

  

  Jamie Blackley
  • Amazing
  • Spring

• Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Bad
  • Crazy

• Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Work
  • God
  • Prayer

• My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Mother
  • Wells
  • Conflict

• Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

  

  Socrates
  • God
  • Best
  • Knows