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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married with children, a scan of your photos and other people's photos featuring you will make it far easier to deduce.

  

  Jan Chipchase
  • People
  • Children

• My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Dad
  • Band
  • Player

• Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Up
  • Hand

• You are pooped and demoralized. Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Time
  • Why
  • Universe

• At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Interesting
  • News

• If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Life
  • Lies
  • Artists

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

  

  Cornelius Plantinga
  • Lies
  • Break
  • Careers