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The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom

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• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

  

  Randy West
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Audience

• He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Time
  • Athlete
  • Just

• All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Thoughts

• We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Choice

• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Win

• A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Long
  • May
  • You

• Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Children
  • Crazy

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

  

  Jack London
  • Memories
  • Nothing
  • Gone

• Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Problems

• I wrote 'Oath' for Cher Lloyd because there were really no best-friend anthems out there. Not only did she love it, she wanted me to rap on it, too!

  

  Becky G
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Oath

• My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

  

  Jason Alexander

• I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town.

  

  Don Ameche

• In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Great
  • Passion

• Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

  

  John Gregory Dunne
  • World
  • Star
  • Sports

• The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Mind

• I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

  

  Van Jones
  • Faith
  • Son
  • Praying

• I've repeatedly warned we must avoid the extremists: those who say we should pull out our troops in Vietnam immediately, those who say we should escalate and go right into North Vietnam... I tell you, we should continue doing what we have been: just messing around.

  

  Pat Paulsen

• I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

  

  David Guterson

• The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom

  

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