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Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

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• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Hurt
  • Operation
  • Judaism

• I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Nice

• The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Together
  • Tree
  • Creation

• Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Successful

• There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • House
  • To Do
  • Corner

• I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Time
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Men
  • City
  • Crazy

• A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • May
  • Happy
  • Dream

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Truth
  • History
  • Story

• I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Encouraging
  • China

• I was born free.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Free
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
  • NASA

• I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Earth
  • Peace

• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Know
  • Always

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Dumb

• Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Why
  • America
  • Wonder

• I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Important
  • Art
  • Respect

• Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

  

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