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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

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• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • She
  • Mother
  • Man

• I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Special

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Age
  • Fear
  • Dark

• Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Support

• Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Communication

• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Song

• I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Shoes

• I work with the macro economy, which involves the major variables that measure the health of the whole economy, such as total consumption, investment, income, employment, and inflation.

  

  Clive Granger
  • Work
  • Health

• And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People
  • Red
  • Blue

• Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

  

  Dinah Sheridan
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Framed

• I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

  

  Paullina Simons
  • Life
  • Great
  • American

• In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • People
  • Culture

• I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

  

  Alice Englert
  • School

• Senator Badger did not call. During the whole of the last session of Congress, he did not call on me. He is a bitter partisan and is no doubt sensible that during the presidential canvass of 1844, he did me gross injustice.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Doubt
  • Bitter
  • Presidential

• I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Different
  • Beginning
  • Expect

• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Inspiration
  • Say
  • Cook

• Bell Biv Devoe, back in the day, we used to look up to them. They had incredible style back then, so we wanted to be like them.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Up
  • Style

• Pretty uniformly, people want the benefits of bitcoin and the blockchain - near-instant transfers, globally available on any Internet-connected device, highly secure, and nearly-free value transfers.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Free

• Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Money
  • Value
  • Common Measure

• Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Value
  • Choices