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• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Best

• Fashion is one big family.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Big

• I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Right
  • Born

• I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Deep

• I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Me
  • Mad
  • Difference

• But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Love
  • Smile
  • Satisfaction

• True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Men
  • True
  • Democracy

• The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Jesus

• Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poor
  • Little
  • Estimation

• Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • Way
  • Grown-Up

• They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

  

  Thomas More
  • Wonder
  • Should
  • Values

• I'm at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don't freak out...I don't think we can call it a rivalry yet. There's just to many great players around.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Player
  • Winning
  • Games

• It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • Habit
  • Greatness
  • Keys

• Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Opportunity
  • Innovation
  • Collaboration

• I've banged half the girls in this room, and that is fuckin' not true. I haven't banged anyone here. I've put my pinky in your butts, couple of you.

  

  Bob Saget
  • True
  • Couple

• You just said it, the style of the music doesn’t allow anything else.

  

  Peter Edward Clarke
  • Music
  • Style
  • Allow

• Literature precedes genre.

  

  Rick Moody
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