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• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dog
  • End
  • Will

• We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Never
  • Left
  • Until

• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Blood

• The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Political
  • Goal

• Meditation helps me to calm down.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Calm
  • Meditation

• Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Growing
  • Grandfather
  • Retail

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Community
  • Question
  • Intelligence

• It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Always

• Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Small
  • Things
  • Small Things

• It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Always

• The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Best

• Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Theory
  • Experiment
  • Naive

• The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Person
  • Years
  • First

• An outsider's point of view is always handy.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Work
  • She
  • Beautiful

• A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Movie
  • Will
  • Image

• Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Remember
  • Literature

• You're no longer fighting God, trying to make Him do what you want. You're accepting what happens, and your main prayer transforms into one that asks God for nothing more than understanding and perhaps strength to endure.

  

  Amy Welborn
  • Fighting
  • Prayer
  • Endure

• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Want
  • You
  • Thought

• We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.

  

  Big Money
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  • Professionals
  • Baseball Player

• I've always said we need to build resilience locally.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Need
  • Build
  • Resilience