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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

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• Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Breakfast
  • Fish
  • Lunch

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
  • School
  • Control
  • Morning

• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Smart
  • Win
  • President

• I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Fat

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Love
  • Funny

• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Teach

• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • God
  • Liberal
  • Suggestions

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Appreciate
  • Evolution

• I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Energy

• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Religion
  • Tradition

• The problem Philip Morris had with electronic cigarettes since the beginning of development was the satisfaction of the smoker. Because the taste is dramatically different and, at the initial stages, the nicotine pharmacokinetics were very slow. You could not get the satisfaction. It's not so easy to crack this code. The taste satisfaction is very important. The closest you are to this, the more chances you have to switch people. It's very nice to have a zero-risk product, but if nobody uses it, you don't have any reduction in public health risk.

  

  Andre Calantzopoulos
  • Risk
  • Satisfaction
  • Electronic

• Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

  

  Dannel Malloy
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • People
  • Attract
  • Willfull

• The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • World
  • Spirit
  • Absolutes

• I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

  

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