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Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

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• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Technology

• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Building
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Shape
  • Skinny

• I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Students
  • Israel

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Two
  • Director

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
  • Sleep
  • Astronauts

• I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Like

• When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Band

• I'm a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.

  

  Brooke Burns
  • Girl
  • Door

• I've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer

• The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Genius

• If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • People
  • May

• What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

  

  Jenna McCarthy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

  

  Lord North
  • Men
  • May
  • Popular