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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

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• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Movie
  • High
  • Black

• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Conditions
  • Hold

• I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Time
  • Like
  • Place

• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Look
  • Winter
  • Diamonds

• Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Why
  • Need
  • One Word

• I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Look

• But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Generation
  • News

• You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

  

  Ram Dass
  • You
  • Moving
  • Content

• I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • People
  • Believe
  • Simple

• Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great
  • Career
  • Superman

• Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Scary

• It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • World

• Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • May
  • Tombstone

• Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Hate

• My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Thinking
  • American
  • America

• In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • America
  • War
  • Depression

• I was able to realize that I definitely want to make sure that I use my voice, as it gets bigger and bigger, in the world for good.

  

  Edy Ganem
  • World
  • Good

• A lot of people who work with Dre, you're lucky if anything sees the light of day.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • People
  • Work
  • Light

• A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Up
  • Good
  • Children

• In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!

  

  Bruce Coville
  • People
  • Age
  • Picture

• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• Experience, which plays such an important part in culinary work, is nowhere so necessary as in the preparation of sauces, for not only must the latter flatter the palate, but they must also very in savour, consistence, and viscosity, in accordance with the dishes they accompany.

  

  Auguste Escoffier
  • Work
  • Important
  • Experience

• My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

  

  Sarah Wayne Callies
  • House
  • Military
  • Perspective

• I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

  

  Zona Gale
  • Preparation
  • Digestion