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• The army is the true nobility of our country.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Country
  • True
  • Army

• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

  Quintilian
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Conceal

• In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Love
  • Career
  • Acting

• Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Up
  • Good
  • True

• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Famous
  • Numbers

• In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

  

  Om Puri
  • Stories
  • Actors
  • Films

• I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • World
  • You
  • Talk

• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Never

• Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Same
  • Possible

• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Man

• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Golf and dating don't mix.

  

  Larry David
  • Golf
  • Dating
  • Mix

• You can never get enough of what you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Want
  • You
  • Never

• If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Best
  • Son
  • Voice

• Politics is the art of the possible.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Possible

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Politics
  • Better

• I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Great
  • Best

• The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Ideas
  • Tests
  • Timing

• I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

  

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