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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

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• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Way
  • Thoughts
  • Emotional

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• I'm not really the sex symbol type.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Sex
  • Really
  • Symbol

• I think Michael Moore is a hero.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Hero
  • Michael

• I had been trying to find a publisher who would put some of my stuff into book form, but I met with no encouragement. Every well-known publisher in the United States turned down Tarzan of the Apes, including A.C. McClurg & Co., who finally issued it, my first story in book form.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Trying
  • Book

• The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Great
  • Father
  • Science

• Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Opportunity

• Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • God
  • Lies
  • Selfless

• I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Die
  • Honor

• We can't continue to tax, borrow, and spend at the rates that we are, and it's just got to be stopped.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann

• I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.

  

  Dave Goldberg

• You're always attracted to someone you want to learn from.

  

  Katherine Moennig

• I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.

  

  Lynn Davies

• Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Important
  • Political
  • Control

• I write what's given me to write.

  

  Philip Levine

• I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Pretty

• Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable them, and this virus - this religion, this protocol - will enable the free flow of money and language, along with packets, around the globe.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Live
  • Money
  • Free

• We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Up
  • World
  • Truth

• The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Enjoy
  • Poor

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • First
  • Cheat
  • Frauds

• No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

  

  Sophocles
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