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A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

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• If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Work
  • Long
  • Know

• I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • House
  • Doing

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• Fashion is one big family.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Big

• I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Directing

• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• You reach a point where you don't work for money.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • You

• You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Waiting
  • Forest
  • Brainy

• Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

  

  Earl Browder
  • History
  • System
  • Socialism

• Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?

  

  Fat Joe
  • Why
  • Business
  • Hair

• To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • American
  • Happy
  • Culture

• You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Me
  • Reason

• I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Imagine

• I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Style

• Kris Dunn is a very athletic point guard.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Very
  • Point
  • Guard

• I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Action
  • Challenge
  • Athlete

• Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• I like it when every pitch counts. There are a lot of people who see it as a negative, but I try to feed off it.

  

  Eric Gagne
  • People
  • Trying
  • Negative

• Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • She
  • Decision
  • Fate

• I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Music
  • Strong

• I can't watch most movies because they scare me too much.

  

  Jessica St. Clair

• Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Training
  • Talent

• A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

  

  Dalai Lama