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Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world

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• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Black
  • Reading

• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
  • Only

• I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.

  

  Rae Carson
  • World
  • Think
  • Open-minded

• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Work
  • Different
  • Knowledge

• When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Single

• Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Anxiety
  • Fine
  • Concentration

• My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Greatest

• I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Confidence
  • Personality

• The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • World
  • America
  • Find

• The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said - of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • Friends

• Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

  

  Aristotle Onassis
  • Life
  • Up

• It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.

  

  Jaycie Phelps
  • People
  • Help
  • Goals

• Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.

  

  Alex Berenson

• I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Life
  • World

• It's every little girl's dream to go onto the World Cup.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • World
  • Dream
  • Girl

• i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.

  

  John Gardner
  • World
  • Universe
  • Chaos

• I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. I never design things. I want films to choose me; I don't choose films.

  

  Pawan Kalyan
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Design

• Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world

  

  Conn Iggulden
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