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To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.

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• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Slavery
  • Old

• I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

  

  Vanity
  • Like
  • Making
  • Musical

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Think
  • Past

• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Always
  • Two
  • Actress

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Self

• My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Born

• A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Truth

• If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Law
  • Chaos

• Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverend occiput. Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut., Grit your molars and do your dut., Gird up your l__ns, Smite h_p and th_gh, We'll all be Kansas By and by.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Planning
  • Grit

• He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Heart
  • She
  • Pain

• Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

  

  Lester B. Pearson

• We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu

• Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

  

  Alice Munro
  • She
  • Grief

• I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.

  

  Daniel Hope

• Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Life
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable. Every day we’re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that’s made all the difference. Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Trying

• The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Meaningful

• To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.

  

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