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I would have perished had I not perished.

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• I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Important
  • War
  • Balance

• I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Hate
  • Makeup

• I am always happy to use my song and dance training.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Dance

• I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Style

• To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Great
  • Music
  • Eyes

• Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • People
  • Feminist

• One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Growing

• The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Memories

• You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and 'The Passion' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • World
  • Job
  • Passion

• There's an amazing movie called 'Los Angeles Plays Itself.'

  

  Valerie Faris
  • Movie
  • Amazing

• I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Music
  • Running
  • Listening

• It's about just staying in the moment.

  

  Jake Arrieta

• For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

  

  Douglas Adams

• While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.

  

  James E. Faust
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't really have any kind of rigorous or definite routine before I go onstage. I like to eat at least an hour or two before I go on. If I can't do that, I just wait until after. I try and drink lots of water before I go onstage.

  

  Martina McBride
  • Water

• I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.

  

  Bill James
  • People
  • Up
  • Opinion

• Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Science

• I'm a lot more serious on the court. I'm probably a lot more intense than some of these guys thought I would be. Off the court, I'm a totally different dude. But my passion's to win, and I'm a perfectionist out there.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Different
  • Passion
  • Serious

• I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.

  

  Cilla Black

• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

  

  Euripides
  • Lives
  • Kill
  • Credence

• Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Eyes

• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Courage
  • Fortune
  • Riches

• On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished in Kalinin when I was fleeing from the Germans. The way we have scurried to and fro in the twentieth century, trapped between Hitler and Stalin!

  

  Nadezhda Mandelstam
  • Books
  • Saved
  • Perished

• I would have perished had I not perished.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Perished