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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Women
  • She
  • Success

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

  

  Fleur East
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Want

• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Live
  • Disease

• I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Lucky
  • Really
  • Superhero

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fear

• There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Vulnerability
  • U.S.
  • Monsters

• I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • City

• If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Imagine
  • Achieve
  • Farming

• Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Right

• If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

  

  Ben Webster
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Play

• We never settle for 'This is good enough.' It always has to be amazing because that's the kind of music we'd want to listen to, and that's the kind of music we want to give to other people.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • People
  • Music
  • Listen

• You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Small

• It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Night
  • Hopes
  • Regrets

• The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."

  

  Arthur Holly Compton
  • Ideas
  • Lord
  • Students

• Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

  

  William Shatner
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