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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Long
  • Now
  • Racing

• The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Reason
  • Stuff
  • Plan

• Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Now
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Country
  • Now

• There are just so many young designers now.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Young
  • Just
  • Now

• There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Now

• Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Now

• A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Good
  • Story
  • Now

• Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Now
  • Listen
  • Kick

• Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • College
  • Now
  • Texas

• My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • High
  • Think
  • Reason

• I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guitar
  • Now
  • Beatles

• I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Now

• Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Now
  • Voting

• Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Time
  • World
  • Now

• Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Life
  • Time
  • High

• If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dead
  • Now
  • Muslim

• I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

  

  Questlove
  • Love
  • Power
  • Now

• A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Reason

• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Love
  • Beauty

• People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Believe
  • Celebrity

• Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.

  

  Edward Jay Epstein
  • Light
  • Movies
  • Changed

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct