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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Football
  • Dog
  • Youth

• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Karma

• When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movie
  • Child
  • See

• I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Food
  • Myself
  • Speak

• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Temptation

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Literature
  • Nervous

• I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • More
  • Conscious
  • Rapper

• Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • May
  • Meaning
  • Lazy

• Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Fragrance

• The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Model

• I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

  

  NeNe Leakes
  • Time
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• I do guest vocals all the time.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Time
  • Guest
  • Vocals

• A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Value

• You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.

  

  Lindsey Wixson
  • World
  • Different
  • Fashion

• It's time to close Gitmo.

  

  Barack Obama
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