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But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

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• Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• After you get what you want you don't want it.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Want
  • You
  • After

• I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Really

• Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Real
  • Man
  • City

• We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Want
  • Continue
  • Differently

• Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Human Body

• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sad
  • Stories
  • Anger

• I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Write
  • Tough

• If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Winning
  • Doing

• When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Money
  • Government
  • Between

• For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.

  

  Iman
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Always

• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • May
  • True

• I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Bad
  • Hurt
  • Eye

• Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Pain

• You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • May
  • Anxiety
  • Cat

• I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Really
  • Get
  • Late

• The most superficial fact regarding the Discourses, the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's History, compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli's two books and with an enormous blasphemy.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • History

• But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

  

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