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Iris Johansen

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Yourself

• I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Movies

• Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Being

• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Real
  • Business
  • Day

• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Never
  • Famous

• The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Giving
  • Listening
  • Unique

• I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Man
  • Rather
  • Denmark

• My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Diet

• I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Thoughts
  • Inspiration

• Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Attitude

• We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Myself
  • Too Much
  • Fat

• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Men
  • History

• Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Power
  • Man
  • Stand

• I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Women
  • Respect

• The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Women
  • History

• I'm very religious.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Religious
  • Very

• It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Present
  • Vain
  • Recall

• There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty and felt that nobody could know I was gay, I was having sex with strangers in public parks. I don't think it was evil exactly, but it wasn't so great either. There was nobody particularly benefiting from it, except, I suppose, to the extent that it gave some pleasure to me and perhaps whomever I was with.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Together

• Anticipation makes pleasure more intense...

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Pleasure
  • Intense
  • Anticipation