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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

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• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Day
  • First

• My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Judgment
  • Errors
  • Failures

• I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Good Things

• In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Football

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • You
  • Living
  • Realize

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Mainstream
  • Then

• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Looks

• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • You
  • Strength
  • Muscles

• The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Book
  • My Life

• I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Body
  • Run
  • Legislative

• Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Opportunity

• A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Song
  • Comforting

• You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

  

  Ashley Smith
  • Universe

• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Failure
  • Impossible

• I just love when girls rock short hair, because they can't hide behind anything. I feel more empowered with short hair.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Rock
  • Hair

• But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

  

  John Sayles
  • God
  • Writing

• There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • People
  • War
  • Enemy

• It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

  

  Rita Dove
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