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Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

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• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Money
  • Leaving
  • Theater

• The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Work
  • May
  • Home

• When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Relationship
  • Desire
  • Effort

• U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Intelligence
  • Well

• One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Military
  • Conflict

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • You
  • Walking

• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Place
  • Conservative

• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Nice

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Look
  • Existence

• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Game

• All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Powerful
  • Vote
  • Our

• I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Know
  • Mystery
  • Not Knowing

• With all the things that have occurred in this country in the past couple of years, we want to assure people that this is an isolated, specific event, not of any random nature.

  

  Jeff Keith Tesla
  • People
  • Country
  • Event

• The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Art

• I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it takes a lot of the intimidation of everyday away.

  

  Joelle Carter
  • People
  • Up
  • Teacher

• Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our difference in terms of age demographic. And so the content itself is really more suitable for the brand itself.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Age
  • Difference
  • Brand

• In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental to normal life of the body.

  

  Charles Horace Mayo
  • Age
  • Dark
  • Cancer

• Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

  

  Antiphanes
  • Age