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Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

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• Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Beginning

• As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Child
  • Vocalists

• All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Night
  • Car
  • Driving

• Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Now
  • Teeth
  • Naked

• I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Sun

• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Left
  • August
  • Stayed

• Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Technology

• I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Think
  • Everything
  • Choose

• I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Guy
  • Feel

• I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fame

• I was born in 1973, so I did not see 'Alien' when it was released theatrically. I saw 'Alien' when it was on Home Box Office. I think I was probably 10.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Home
  • Office
  • Alien

• We've been together 32 years and married for 27.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Together
  • Years
  • Married

• There's been a progression in my sound.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Sound
  • Been
  • Progression

• You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Internet

• It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Future
  • Happiness

• The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Brain
  • Digital

• Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Want

• I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same parents, you grow up in the same household, you're both girls. How do you end up with such wildly different personalities?...One puts on a bikini like little semaphore flags and lies by the pool looking sexy, and the other puts on her school bathing suit and swims her heart out like a dolphin.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Parents
  • Personalities
  • Household

• So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.

  

  Bel Powley

• Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Vision
  • Born
  • Birth

• Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

  

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