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Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

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• The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Try

• Me a playboy?! You must be joking. But playing something like Robert Redford's role in Indecent Proposal would be a pleasant surprise.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Wonder

• I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.

  

  Chris Pratt

• If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.

  

  Loni Love
  • Money
  • Confidence

• I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Women
  • Children
  • Suffering

• Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

  

  James Brown
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Performing

• If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Music
  • Moments

• Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Inspiration
  • Perish
  • Deteriorate

• I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Way
  • Anger
  • Valid

• Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Fiction

• When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

  

  will.i.am
  • School
  • Mom
  • Dresses

• The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Instinct
  • Insects
  • Brutes

• Rotten wood cannot be carved.

  

  Confucius
  • Wood
  • Rotten
  • Carved

• When I was first cast in the role, I’d wake up in sweat, afraid I’d be accused of stealing a disabled actor’s role.

  

  Naomi Grossman
  • Role
  • Stealing
  • Accused

• Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.

  

  Clare B. Dunkle
  • People
  • Killing

• Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

  

  William Pitt
  • Unlimited
  • Possessor

• Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Newspapers
  • Absolutely
  • Relied

• I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Newspapers
  • Treats
  • Diseases

• Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

  

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