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• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Look

• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Going
  • Big
  • Most

• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• We can't legislate human nature.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Human Nature

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Job
  • Play

• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • Choice
  • Writer

• Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Moon

• This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Growing
  • Islam

• We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Always
  • English
  • Trouble

• Beulah, Peel me a grape.

  

  Mae West

• The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Important
  • Snow

• The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing: we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic...

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Fear

• As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

  

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka

• I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows away. Of course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

  

  C.J. Sansom
  • Gratitude
  • Lawyer
  • Thank You

• Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.

  

  Abhinavagupta
  • Dream
  • Drama
  • Felt

• A full mind is an empty bat.

  

  Branch Rickey
  • Mind

• If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • Consciousness

• Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

  

  Homer
  • Mind
  • Discourse
  • Banquet