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I guess what inspires me is when I am watching somebody else do something that really has an impact on me. That inspires me to want to do that in return.

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• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • First

• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Negative

• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Wear
  • Did
  • Van

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Past
  • Without
  • Some

• My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Father
  • Ear
  • Hank

• Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

  

  Pat Brown
  • You
  • Smart
  • Figure

• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Man
  • Action

• If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Game
  • Change
  • Revolution

• I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Time
  • Important
  • Relationship

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Think
  • Sales

• Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Walking
  • Conservative
  • Suits

• As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Always
  • Almost

• Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poetry
  • Impossible
  • Self

• The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Gay

• I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Way
  • Single
  • Regret

• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Respect
  • Perfect
  • Effort

• One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Evil
  • Return

• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Work
  • Done
  • End

• To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, 1 what do we want to bring to the conversation and 2 what do we want to bring out in others.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Conversation

• I guess what inspires me is when I am watching somebody else do something that really has an impact on me. That inspires me to want to do that in return.

  

  Emily Kokal
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