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• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Artist
  • Ability

• The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Law
  • Stop

• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Information
  • Profound
  • Meaning

• When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Light
  • Wise

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Hope
  • Way
  • Me

• I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Cool
  • Like
  • Really

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.

  

  Verite
  • Small
  • Lost
  • Day

• And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Musicians
  • Harder
  • Hide

• I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• You cannot run faster than a bullet.

  

  Idi Amin
  • You
  • Run
  • Bullet

• Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. … Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Good
  • Long
  • Attention

• The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Responsibility

• It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • Sad

• I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People

• Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Focus
  • Positive

• What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Death

• From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel like making the three mile hike to the well to get water and carry it back, everyone struggles.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Water
  • Struggle

• I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Christian

• I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Stop
  • Tree
  • Plant

• From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Sometimes
  • Courage
  • Certain

• Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

  

  Ed Seykota
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