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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • School
  • Couple
  • Hurt

• The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Why
  • Business
  • Moral

• There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Book
  • Know
  • Nice

• I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Personality

• Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Democracy
  • Bring
  • Central

• Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Future
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • World
  • Children
  • Environment

• I've continually reminded myself that I never want to change. I could be on the cover of a magazine today, but next week someone else is going to be on that cover. You always have to remain the same person because when those opportunities end, guess what you have? You have you. And if you change from being you, you have nothing anymore.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Today
  • Change
  • End

• The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I obey nature, I never presume to command her. The first principal in art is to copy what one sees.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Art
  • Nature

• All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.

  

  James Carville
  • Sports

• Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

  

  James Bryce

• Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• I think it's very hard to write things about being joyful. I find that quite difficult. I think when you're happy, you don't want to write songs; you just want to enjoy being happy.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Happy

• I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet.

  

  Sia LSD

• I'm motivated to be No. 1.

  

  Jason Day
  • Motivated

• The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • Up
  • History

• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.

  

  Lisa Graff
  • Children
  • Book
  • Movie

• The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtues
  • Violation
  • Engendered

• Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of the victims.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Suffering
  • Tragedy
  • Horror

• Friendship demands attention.

  

  Thomas More
  • Attention
  • Demand