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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Risk
  • Run

• I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Animal
  • Right
  • Dumb

• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Free
  • Motion
  • Friction

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Behind
  • Reveal

• My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Life
  • Character
  • Job

• The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Women
  • Why
  • Sky

• I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Records
  • Hits
  • Legendary

• Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.

  

  Nate Parker
  • People
  • Black
  • Hate

• Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Job

• I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • World
  • Music
  • Fear

• As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • America
  • Violence
  • Picture

• Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Truth

• Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Bank
  • Vegetables
  • Soil

• Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Discovery

• I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • Life
  • Together
  • Husband

• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Freedom
  • Perfect
  • Health

• I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

  

  John Woolman
  • Age
  • Respect

• They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Know
  • Control
  • Creative

• The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Place
  • Gods

• The only international language in the world is a child's cry.

  

  Eglantyne Jebb
  • Children
  • Language
  • Cry