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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Words

• Republicans have never been good at public relations.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Good
  • Never
  • Been

• Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Thanks
  • Congress

• Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Game

• I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Know
  • Humanity

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• David Lynch helped me be cool.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Helped

• The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Done
  • Night
  • Action

• It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Live
  • Faith
  • Forever

• I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • House
  • Determined

• We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Game
  • Matter
  • Ourselves

• I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Research
  • Grateful

• In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Future
  • Past
  • Prepare

• Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Life

• Having three tough finishing holes in a major, you know, you know that, most likely, it's going to come down to those last three holes. Having a good game plan, a good strategy, and executing obviously is going to be the big key.

  

  Dustin Johnson
  • Good
  • Game

• I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

  

  Charlotte Bronte

• Reading is good, action is better.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Good
  • Action
  • Reading