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• There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • Love
  • Remember

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Way

• The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Lies
  • Defeated
  • Empire

• As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Past
  • You
  • Living

• Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • You
  • Ego
  • Impact

• The movies were custard compared to politics.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Politics
  • Movies
  • Were

• Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Life
  • Country
  • Like

• I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Christian
  • Struggle

• My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Ridiculous
  • Stolen

• I could give you a list a mile long of the homosexuals in the arts but there's no point in making a big tzimis about a relatively harmless and cool state of affairs - Each man to his own tastes.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Cool

• Todo se había quedado sin engaño, esa vez. Y esa vez tuve miedo de todo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

  

  Chelsea Handler

• I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Great
  • Relationship

• The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • People
  • Work
  • Fashion

• Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

  

  Bill Forsyth
  • People
  • Life
  • Dark

• I love yoga. There's a lot of stretching involved, which helps with my flexibility and injury prevention. Vinyasa is my favorite as a recovery tool and for me to continue having my legs feel good.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Good
  • Yoga
  • Recovery

• I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Serious

• It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin. Superficially, that would suggest that conservatives take a more understanding and indulgent view of individual lapses, while liberals take a more harshly judgmental one. In fact, we know, quite the opposite is the case.

  

  William A. Henry III
  • Believe
  • Understanding
  • Individual

• You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

  

  David Morrissey
  • People

• His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Time
  • Live
  • Light

• As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Question
  • Nonviolence
  • Common Law

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