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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

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• Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Thinking
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• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
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• Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brand

• We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • American
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• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
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  • Blessed

• Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • You
  • Car

• I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Clothes

• At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Art

• I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Understand

• Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Life
  • Father

• I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.

  

  Amin Maalouf
  • People
  • Country
  • Faith

• Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Space
  • Innovation

• I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Mind
  • Lyrics

• As for the brandy, 'nothing extenuate;' and the water, put nought in it malice.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold
  • Water

• Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.

  

  Angelo Dundee
  • Learned
  • Fighter
  • Trainers

• I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Life
  • Real
  • Career

• Remember that your reputation is everything. You build your personal brand through everything you do, whether big actions or small decisions, and that brand will stay with you throughout your career.

  

  Jan Fields
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Small

• Change and uncertainty are part of life. Our job is not to resist them but to build the capability to recover when unexpected events occur. If you don’t always try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Job
  • Nature
  • Change

• My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Cat
  • Curiosity
  • Epitaph