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My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

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• I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Right
  • Read

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Light
  • Flight
  • Shed

• I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Mother
  • Missing
  • Stills

• I love a lot of people, understand none of them.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Understand
  • I Love

• The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Long
  • Way
  • Attention

• I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Home
  • Stupid
  • Cows

• The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Body
  • Painting
  • Relief

• The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Learning

• I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

  

  Kanye West
  • Long
  • Rest
  • Sleep

• Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Confidence
  • Golf

• Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Political

• Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Simple
  • Quiet
  • Surface

• I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Positive

• For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Men
  • Blow
  • Reputation

• Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

  

  Allan Lichtman
  • Leadership
  • Achievements
  • Presidents

• There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

  

  Juan Enriquez
  • Opportunity
  • Interested
  • Curious

• For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Bad

• And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • House
  • Wish
  • Church

• Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • History
  • Architecture
  • Names

• My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

  

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