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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

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• I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • True

• Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Mind
  • King

• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Care
  • Take

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Song
  • Soldier
  • Theme

• Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Fall
  • Big
  • Nobody

• Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Small

• Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Moving
  • Down
  • Slow

• I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I was a trampoline gymnast. I had actually won nationals in my age group. So it was like one of those perfect, unbelievable miracles.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • People
  • Age
  • Perfect

• A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

  

  Karl Marx

• 'Don’t press her,' said Cooper. 'If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Experience

• of a character in 'The Man Who Gave Up Smoking' who is suffering from a hangover ... the noise of the cat stamping about in the passage outside caused him exquisite discomfort.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Character
  • Suffering

• Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • May
  • Power
  • Science

• 'I do not need nobody tellin' me who I am! I know who I am!...I be walkin' down the hallway, they call me names. They call me faggot, they call me sissy, I say, 'Oh yeah? Well, you forgot, I'm also a model and a actress, so fuck you too!''

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Model

• Need is not quite belief.

  

  Anne Sexton

• I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Gold

• I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Up
  • She
  • Parents

• In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

  

  Lou Barletta
  • People
  • Small
  • City

• Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Power
  • Logic

• To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

  

  Sallust
  • Power
  • Useful
  • Seeking