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• Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nice
  • Should
  • Along

• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Remember

• The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • America
  • Company
  • Irish

• Beaujolais is so underrated.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Underrated

• Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Education
  • Support
  • Health

• Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Criticism
  • Welcome
  • Corrupt

• You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • You
  • Enjoy

• You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Country
  • Girl
  • City

• All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • World
  • Music
  • Reading

• For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Life
  • Unity

• My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

  

  Andy Goldsworthy
  • Work

• It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Balance

• My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Done
  • Kids
  • Mother

• This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Power
  • Pain

• A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.

  

  Christopher Alexander

• The Germans argue - and I can fully understand them - that the euro countries must surrender their sovereignty, because that is the only way to implement budget discipline in a fiscal union.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • Discipline

• Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.

  

  Luciano Vincenzoni
  • Great

• I'm a cheap date.

  

  Abi Morgan

• He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Care
  • Hurt
  • Beats

• Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Moon
  • Hide

• “And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”

  

  Wladyslaw Szpilman
  • Run
  • Hide
  • Lonelier

• Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

  

  Sophocles
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