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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

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• I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Focus

• To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Food
  • Muse
  • Shelter

• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

  

  Earl King
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Serious

• There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Feeling
  • Feel
  • Talking

• Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Black
  • Day
  • Garden

• Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Morning

• The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Going

• What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Pressure
  • Walk
  • Camera

• I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• You can't be wrong in the three-tech position. I like that. It allows a lot of freedom.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Freedom
  • You
  • Like

• I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Up
  • Fashion

• I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Fountain

• As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • You
  • Need
  • Tax

• We're seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Together
  • Seeing
  • Washington

• Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• Tom Ford does everything perfect.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Perfect
  • Everything
  • Tom

• The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Realizing
  • Dishes

• Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.

  

  Carol Bellamy
  • World
  • Action

• If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Man
  • Design
  • Gay

• You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • World

• Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Wonderful
  • Lifetime
  • Gains

• It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

  

  B. W. Powe