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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

• I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Me
  • Person
  • Gun

• I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

  Ford Frick
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Opera

• I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • American
  • Dream

• I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Food
  • Die

• I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • Enough
  • Vote

• You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • Time
  • Job
  • Wall

• If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Game
  • Night

• The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Financial

• I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Dangerous
  • Directors

• Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Energy
  • Coffee
  • Idiot

• Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.

  

  H. A. Rey
  • Good
  • Running
  • Play

• The first time I got on stage I was 10 years old and I did impressions. I did cartoon characters and I really got the bug for this life when I saw that people were laughing and saw the attention I was getting.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Christian
  • Loss
  • Investment

• Living the dream is simply a form of living your passion.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Dream
  • Passion
  • MMA

• Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Love
  • Musicians
  • Played

• Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Poet
  • Interpreter
  • Foreign Country

• This is one of my favorite pick up strategies: I'm constantly giving women my keys. So far, none of them have shown up. Matter of time. And I've been robbed twice.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is - I will form good habits and become their slave.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

  

  Rex Stout
  • Keys
  • Glasses