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I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

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• The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Game

• I boxed 15 years in a club.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Years
  • Club
  • Boxed

• My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Me
  • Like
  • Son

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mother
  • Always
  • More

• Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Real
  • Enjoy
  • Hunger

• Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Celebrate

• I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Follower
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Different
  • You
  • Doing

• Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Time
  • May
  • Fun

• It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • Why
  • Business

• I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Problems
  • Surgery
  • Shoulder

• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Quality

• I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Born

• Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Short
  • Pasta

• I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Know
  • Watching
  • Depressing

• The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
  • Passion

• In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Work
  • Action
  • Ask

• I feel like the older I get, the more I start to think about life in general. All the clichés that people tell you, the ones that you hear over and over and over again, there's a reason they're cliché, there's a reason you hear them over and over again, because it's all true. As much as you don't wanna hear it, it's true. You'll find out later on, like "Man, they're all right."

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • True
  • Tell

• Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life

• London can be quite lonely and a hard place to live, but I do love it. It is where I forged my way to live. It is where I call home.

  

  Chloe Pirrie
  • Live
  • Home
  • Lonely

• I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

  

  Lennart Meri