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• Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Forever

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• Tom Brokaw was never young.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Never
  • Young
  • Tom

• Incommensurables cannot be compared.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Cannot
  • Compared

• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Job
  • Man
  • Government

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Wonderfully

• Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Changed
  • Last
  • Hawaii

• My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Up
  • Night
  • City

• My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Long
  • Done
  • Hurt

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Islam
  • Stable
  • Ordered

• We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Golf
  • Try
  • Pressure

• The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Song
  • Start

• If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Regret

• Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear's labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve's realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world's image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully.

  

  Dan Beachy-Quick
  • World
  • Writing
  • Imagination

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • Friends

• I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad;But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek,Until made glad.I cannot feelThat all is well, when dark'ning clouds concealThe shining sun;But then I knowGod lives and loves; and say, since it is so, 'Thy will be done.'

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Dark

• P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...

  

  Larry Wall
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