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Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

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• Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Me
  • Training
  • Providence

• I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Success
  • Education

• Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Men
  • Success

• War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Economic
  • Rights

• The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Live
  • Society
  • Reflection

• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Path
  • Leave
  • Lead

• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pressure

• I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Think
  • Passion
  • Child

• I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Life
  • Movies
  • Old

• Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Freaks
  • Galactica

• Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Reality
  • Running

• Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Living
  • Through
  • Heat

• In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Think
  • Worry
  • Disasters

• I'm a writer, not a genre.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writer
  • Genre

• The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Women
  • Best
  • Group

• Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Movie
  • Military
  • Doing

• It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Focus

• The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • People
  • God
  • Way

• The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Career
  • Education
  • Community

• Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Thoughts
  • Generation
  • Grow

• Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • May
  • Way
  • Travel

• Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

  

  Ninette de Valois
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