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Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.

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• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Judge
  • Television
  • Indian

• I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Breakfast
  • Last
  • Soldiers

• Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Change
  • Literature
  • Ethical

• Simplicity is not so simple to attain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Simple
  • Simplicity

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461

  

  Oswald Spengler

• «¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Thinking

• The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Sleep
  • Sea
  • Wind

• I ask at what part of its curved motion the moving cause will leave the thing moved and moveable.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Moving

• The fundamental values of a true community are elsewhere: in love, poetry, disinterested thought, the free use of the imagination, the pursuit of non-utilitarian activities, the production of non-profitmaking goods, the employment of non-consumable wealth - here are the sustaining values of a living culture.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • True
  • Free
  • Culture

• Dostoevsky once wrote: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted'; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Existentialism

• I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

  

  David Mamet

• There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

  

  Dean Martin

• I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

  

  Lesley Ann Warren
  • Country
  • Girl
  • Singing

• A thought is an idea in transit.

  

  Pythagoras

• If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life.

  

  William Howard Schuman
  • Students
  • Doctrine
  • Inquiry

• I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Sound
  • Perfection
  • Medicine

• Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

  

  David Ives
  • Small

• Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.

  

  George Gobel
  • Play
  • Break
  • Bar

• Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.

  

  Cornelius Plantinga
  • Lies
  • Break
  • Careers