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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Me

• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
  • Die
  • Afraid

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • World
  • Home
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• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
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  • Quick

• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
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• Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • Game
  • Justice

• I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Face
  • Foundation
  • Flaws

• The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Work
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• I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • People
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  • Challenge

• My next baby will be my new record.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Baby
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  • Will

• Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Sex
  • Vampire
  • Interview

• To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Girl
  • Courage
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• There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
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• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
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• The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Sleep
  • Anxiety

• I'm inspired by questions I have that I try to figure out the answers to through my writing.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Writing
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• An exoteric book contains then two teachings: a popular teaching of an edifying character, which is in the foreground; and a philosophic teaching concerning the most important subject, which is indicated only between the lines.

  

  Leo Strauss
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• Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you.

  

  David Wagoner
  • Tree
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  • Stranger

• But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

  

  Tom Lehrer
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