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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

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• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Work
  • Know
  • Deal

• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Born

• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Trouble
  • Individual
  • Last

• There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • High
  • Education
  • Law

• Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Reality
  • Never

• There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Forget

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Give
  • Birth
  • Shalt

• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Problem
  • Photography
  • Turn

• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Words
  • Nothing
  • Equal

• Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Ignore

• I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'

  

  Megan Hilty
  • People

• I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Sound

• There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Food
  • Firsts

• Intimate scenes are always super awkward - and that is the truth. I know everybody says it, but it really is true.

  

  Meghann Fahy
  • Truth
  • True

• There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

  

  Livy
  • Truth
  • Friendships