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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

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• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Teach
  • Group

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Use
  • Boots
  • Edmonton

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Better

• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Live
  • Networking

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Work
  • Money
  • Kids

• Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Life
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Women
  • Book
  • Most

• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Done
  • History
  • Pretty

• My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • King

• Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Leadership

• Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Important
  • You
  • Film

• I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Television

• A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • Dream
  • Advice

• It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • Forever
  • Humans
  • Pressure

• I don't do radio or TV. I do people.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • People

• It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

  

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