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• It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Faith
  • Vision
  • Courage

• I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Years
  • Old
  • Gymnastics

• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Social Media

• The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Wise

• Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Learning

• I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Understanding
  • Progress

• Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Vote

• Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Dance

• When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Constitution
  • Him
  • Sexuality

• Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Help

• And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Man
  • Balance
  • Fate

• An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Purpose
  • Fishing
  • Lake

• I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • You
  • Woman
  • Design

• Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Want
  • Honesty

• To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Family
  • Food
  • Control

• I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Right
  • Experiences

• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Time
  • Believe

• It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • People
  • Believe
  • Convinced

• Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

  

  Catie Curtis
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Knows

• There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • God
  • Die
  • Heaven

• Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

  

  Natalie Angier
  • Joy
  • Trust
  • Cooperating

• Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • House
  • Air
  • Memories

• You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

  

  William Stafford
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