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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.

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• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Deserved
  • Paul McCartney

• I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.

  

  Becky G
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Problem

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Unique
  • Innovation

• I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Space

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Poetry
  • Human
  • Condition

• I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Star

• 'I'm excited by the band White Stripes. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band

• The way you wear your hat,The way you sip your tea,The mem'ry of all that –No, no! They can't take that away from me!

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Tea

• God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • God

• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Real

• We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Revolution

• I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Pretty

• What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Alcoholic

• If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Time
  • Long
  • Strong

• Genius: the superhuman in man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Superhuman

• Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Death
  • End
  • Grief

• An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.

  

  Tacitus
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dishonorable