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• Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Know
  • Capable

• 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

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Life
  • Own
  • Privacy

• The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Hate
  • Daily
  • Sick

• Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • May
  • City
  • Kind

• It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Moments

• I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Myself

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Best
  • Liberty

• I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Movie
  • Career
  • College

• I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Different
  • America

• In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Funny

• I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Military

• Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • Know
  • Relationships

• 'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!

  

  Manika
  • School
  • High
  • Spanish

• Don't panic. Panic will kill you when nothing else wants to.

  

  Elizabeth Haydon
  • Kill
  • Wants
  • Panic

• For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Question
  • Answers
  • Bearer

• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Thinking
  • Matter
  • Thing

• It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10.

  

  Sonny Liston
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