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Ian Curtis was a young genius.

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• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Light
  • Kitchen
  • Step

• Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Father
  • Passionate
  • Uncle

• I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Before
  • Upset
  • Be Careful

• The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Men
  • Country
  • Strong

• Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • City
  • Weird
  • Sea

• When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Learn
  • Batman

• You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Different
  • Football

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Success
  • Goal
  • Success Is

• As a coach, you feel like you're letting everybody down.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Feelings
  • Disappointment
  • Coach

• Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Sad
  • Depression
  • Despair

• Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gold

• It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Different
  • Insomnia

• There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Genius

• The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Spirit
  • Genius
  • Curiosity

• I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Movies
  • Hollywood
  • Agent

• A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.

  

  Antoine-Henri Jomini
  • War
  • State
  • Defend

• Ian Curtis was a young genius.

  

  Genesis P-Orridge
  • Genius
  • Ian Curtis