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• The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Life
  • Change
  • Master

• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Spirit

• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • May
  • War
  • Attention

• ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Grief

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • You
  • Answers

• Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Storm

• Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Different
  • History
  • You

• I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Age
  • Education
  • Spiritual

• I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Know
  • Me
  • Act

• Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

  

  J Allard
  • People
  • Big
  • Floor

• Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi

• My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspirationAgainst this slow deflationYeah the further the horizonThe more it holds my gazeThe foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phaseJust a phase.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Hope
  • Focus

• It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Hope
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• As much as innovation is important, I think we also need to just make stuff. If we look at Kenya, where I'm from, as an example, we are importing everything down to toothpicks.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Important
  • Innovation

• While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.

  

  Donald A. Wollheim
  • May
  • Control

• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Light

• Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Words
  • Energy
  • Eyes

• Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

  

  Mildred Dresselhaus
  • Work
  • Science
  • Leadership

• There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Self
  • States
  • Reliance

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