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• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Change
  • Best
  • Easy

• Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

  

  B. B. King
  • Die
  • Heaven
  • Go

• I study to learn, to be an educated person.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Study
  • Learn
  • Educated

• There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Person
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Bad
  • Decision
  • Short

• I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Different
  • School
  • Me

• Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Last

• Out of the air a voice without a face Proved by statistics that some cause was just In tones as dry and level as the place: No one was cheered and nothing was discussed...

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Air

• The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Purpose

• Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Money
  • Poverty

• Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music
  • House
  • Cool

• Usually after a shot, we look for a chair to rest our feet. In 'Oopiri,' it was the other way around. After every shot, I was on my feet, walking around the set trying to get the blood circulation in my legs working properly.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Trying
  • Rest
  • Walking

• I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Music
  • Real

• Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

  

  Bret Harte
  • Time
  • Patience

• I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.

  

  Joan Severance
  • Hope
  • Funny

• Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • Together
  • Relationship

• They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Up

• Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
  • Garden

• I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Girl

• My entrepreneurial spirit happened all day long because I got to think of things that kids would interact with. I was in front of my customers for 6-8 hours a day. I got to see what they like, what they don't like, what they connected with, and most importantly, did they learn something from this?

  

  Steve Spangler
  • Kids
  • Learn
  • Customers

• You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Films
  • Convinced
  • Tales

• It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Long
  • Why
  • Marriage

• A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

  

  Barten Holyday
  • Lawyer
  • Mouth
  • Knife