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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

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• Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

  

  Faith Hill
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Think
  • Lake
  • Lived

• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Grateful

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Innocent

• If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Wish
  • Paris
  • Intellectual

• I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Love
  • Pretty

• We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Present
  • Road
  • Fire

• In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Character
  • History

• I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Olympics

• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Air
  • Thoughts

• We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Talking
  • Europe
  • Waves

• I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Day
  • Brand
  • Queen

• I want people to have a good time. It's boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Eyes

• If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best.

  

  Ernest Wood
  • Satisfaction
  • Motives
  • Bondage

• Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Thinking
  • Knowing
  • Seeing

• This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

  

  Socrates
  • Wonder
  • Sense
  • Philosopher