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If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Patience

• Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Forget
  • Healthy

• I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Relationship
  • Yourself
  • Breakup

• My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Stop

• Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • End

• There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Men
  • Inevitable

• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • World
  • Why
  • Father

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Think

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Life
  • Country
  • Father

• Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Life
  • Family
  • Health

• The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Eyes

• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Christian
  • Humanity

• I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • High
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Work
  • First
  • Enthusiastic

• People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Desire

• Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Ifs
  • Bottom
  • Upside Down

• I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies - the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Human
  • Beings
  • Desperation

• The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Written
  • Creates
  • Shakespeare

• If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

  

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