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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.

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• There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Women
  • Family
  • Nice

• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Family
  • American
  • House

• I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Me
  • Living

• I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Down
  • Step
  • Seriously

• I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Surprised
  • How
  • Depth

• It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Weird
  • Goals
  • Sick

• According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Broken
  • Poet
  • Mouth

• No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

  

  George Benson
  • inspirational
  • Matter
  • Dignity

• You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Long
  • Want

• I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Kind
  • Facts
  • Harder

• Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Night
  • Cat
  • Potatoes

• I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Foods
  • Venison

• If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Trying
  • House
  • Camping

• The view, that Christ was not by nature divine but was adopted to be God’s son, emerged not out of Jewish Christianity, but from purely gentile stock. This was a group known as the Theodotians, named after their founder, a shoemaker, who happened also to be an amateur theologian, named Theodotus. Since they were centered in Rome, scholars sometimes refer to this group as the Roman Adoptionists.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christ
  • Christianity
  • Adopted

• Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • World
  • Goal
  • Devices

• Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Good
  • Live
  • Peace

• American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • American
  • Hope
  • Lies

• Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.

  

  Tacitus
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