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• You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Forward

• You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

  

  James Brown
  • God
  • Help
  • Care

• You can't hear me? Read my lips!

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Read
  • Lips
  • My

• Where the Truth Lies rating has a lot more to do with the political climate in America today than it does with the film. It wouldn't have had this rating five years ago. There's nothing graphic in this film on screen; you can look at it, but you won't be able to see it, it's not there. There's nothing graphic sexually that's not about the story telling.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • Truth
  • America
  • Today

• If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

  

  Andy Grove
  • World
  • Job
  • Market

• Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Actions
  • Beliefs
  • Effects

• On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hand
  • Understanding
  • Hands

• Why is it”—she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower—“that I always end up naked while you remain dressed?” A husky masculine chuckle, his lips moving over her shoulder, his hands on her hips. “Because I'm a smart man.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • Men
  • Why

• It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • World
  • Work

• There’s an old saying: that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I don’t believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. Strength comes from the good things — your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. Those are the things that keep you whole. Those are the things to hold on to when you’re broken.

  

  Alessandro Aleotti
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Question

• You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Proud
  • Shoes
  • Miles

• We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters just to see people in the theater watching the movie, and it was incredibly gratifying just to see the thing out there being watched by people. And the reaction was more than we could've expected.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Jesus
  • Lies
  • Appreciation

• I admire people that help other people without asking anything in return, which is something that's really rare these days and hard to find.

  

  Earl Bamber
  • People
  • Help

• Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Material

• All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Able
  • Married
  • Moved

• We have a lot of spirited discussions. We need to be able to have these discussions, and after that we need to get along.

  

  Tom Atkins
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