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When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

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• Honesty will never break you.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • You
  • Never
  • Honesty

• I like sitting close to windows.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Sitting
  • Windows

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Time
  • Small
  • Jesus

• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Word
  • Survival

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • France
  • YouTube
  • Naive

• A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

  

  Ice T
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Words

• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Day
  • Like
  • Florida

• Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Need

• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Goals
  • Just

• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • History
  • Past

• I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • She
  • Remember
  • History

• I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• On Christmas morning, we always make breakfast, and everyone eats before we open any presents. I make muffins and homemade applesauce, which I don't think anyone likes as much as I do... I just love the way it makes the house smell!

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Open
  • Smell
  • Likes

• Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Way
  • Become
  • Fabric

• You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Trying
  • Feels
  • Journey

• You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Family
  • Control

• I’m looking to have an amazing experience and learn what I can. I’ll figure out a way to be involved in my community, give back, grow, who knows, I might even make some money after serving all these years on City Council.

  

  Joel Burns
  • Experience
  • Community
  • Involved

• When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

  

  Dat Phan
  • Trying
  • Growing
  • Poor