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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

• 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 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

• The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Taken
  • Present

• I went to a private girls' school where I was one out of five girls in the class who looked like me.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • School

• There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.'

  

  Charlie Munger
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• Essentially the fault lies in the fact that the democratic political process is at best regulated rivalry; it does not even in theory have the desirable properties that price theory ascribes to truly competitive markets.

  

  John Rawls
  • Political
  • Lies

• The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.

  

  Nina Gordon
  • Stories
  • Songs
  • Tell

• Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

  

  William Shatner
  • Mind
  • Forever
  • Mystery

• Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

  

  Homer
  • Mind
  • Discourse
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