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• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Think
  • Care
  • Caring

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trying

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Going
  • Run
  • Away

• I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Unique
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Couple

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Why
  • Home

• All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Death
  • Sentences

• I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Live
  • Power

• Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Different
  • Book
  • Attention

• Waiting the word of the Master, Watching the Hidden Light; Listening to his orders In the very midst of the fight; Seeing His slightest signal Across the heads of the throng; Hearing His faintest whisper Above earth's loudest song.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Song
  • Earth
  • Light

• I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Men
  • Real
  • Pain

• The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World

• If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

  

  William Gibson
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Surround

• My work is anti-natureThe four-story mountainYou will not think form, space, line, contourJust a suggestion of nature gives weightlight and heavylight like a featheryou get light enough and you levitate

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Light

• All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.

  

  Elizabeth Bibesco
  • Life
  • Light
  • Air

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