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• What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Truth
  • You
  • Woman

• Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Logic
  • Sword

• Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Nothing

• I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Different
  • Love

• Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Rooms
  • Mediocrity
  • Elephant

• I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Fear

• I'm more like an oven than a microwave.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Microwaves
  • Ovens

• I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • People
  • Men
  • Practice

• For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade and I loved those people.

  

  Zach Woods
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Comedy

• Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • People
  • Good
  • Administration

• Money talks — but credit has an echo.

  

  Bob Thaves
  • Money
  • Credit
  • Echo

• The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Family
  • Hint

• Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Fault
  • Fearsome
  • Labrador

• The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Country
  • Schools
  • Stomachs

• I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Exhausted

• A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Taste
  • Capacity
  • Discovered

• I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Technology

• It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Job
  • Learn
  • Forgiving

• You have to remember where you came from, and I definitely have enough brothers and sisters to kick me in the butt whenever I get out of line!

  

  Julianne Hough
  • Remember
  • Came From
  • Butt

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