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I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Nice
  • Party
  • Cool

• The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • American
  • America

• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Country
  • Hair

• They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Present

• I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Songs
  • Mysterious

• There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Power
  • Words
  • Powerful

• When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Me
  • Company

• The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Me
  • Little
  • Airport

• The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Good
  • Experience

• Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • World
  • Live

• Democrats cannot conceive of 'hate speech' towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Hate
  • Eyes

• Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.

  

  Alexis Ohanian

• The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Different

• I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Good
  • Writing

• Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • God
  • Kind
  • Prosthetic

• Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Soul
  • Reading
  • Novel

• We knew before the tournament that this would be like a final for us, that it would be a tough group and that it wouldn't be a cakewalk. But everything is in our hands and that's why I am very confident...

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Confident
  • Final
  • Tournament

• That Evan Dunham fight, I went back to not being serious. I was going to the lake and literally brought some wrestling mats down with me. We have a shop at the lake where we park the boat. I'd throw the mats in there, wakeboard all day, and train all night. I was having a good time, getting back to work.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Music
  • Different
  • Fun

• I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.

  

  Allen Stanford
  • Boat
  • Frugally
  • Private Jet