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• When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Age
  • Small

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Climb

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Tragedy

• Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Live
  • Want
  • Uncomfortable

• I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Balance

• After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Issues
  • Pay
  • Decided

• David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Thoughts
  • Successful

• (Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.

  

  Ragnar Frisch

• The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Done
  • Help

• Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Up
  • Time
  • Truth

• To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Heart
  • Art

• Evidence has... been adduced that schizophrenia is widespread in other kinds of human societies. ...and they form a substantial fraction of the clientele of the tribal shamans and healers.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• Portam itineri dici longissimam esse.

  

  Marcus Terentius Varro

• Under which head do you class those who are at sea?

  

  Anacharsis
  • Sea

• I am not a collector of deserts!

  

  Benito Mussolini

• Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.

  

  Vandana Shiva

• Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist's office/yoga studio dressing room, call me 'Hey, you look like that girl from 'Mrs. Doubtfire'/'Independence Day'/'Rambling Rose.' There is a good reason for that. I am that girl. More accurately, I was that girl.

  

  Lisa Jakub
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

  

  Walter Map
  • Boy
  • Rose
  • Afterwards

• Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Society
  • Fear

• A rose trapped inside a fist.

  

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