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There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

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• To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

  

  Vera Wang
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• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

  

  Orrin Hatch
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• Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• It was always my dream to write for a living.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

  

  Kate Moss
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• You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

  

  Gabby Douglas
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• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
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• When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

  

  Yves Rossy
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• If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
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• Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

  

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• My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.

  

  Olivia Williams
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• I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

  

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• Tolerance is another word for indifference.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.

  

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• Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

  

  Venus Williams
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• 'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

  

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• The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• Becoming an authority in your industry can be a great way to promote your business and help you better serve your clients.

  

  Lewis Howes
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• That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

  

  Danny Boyle
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• The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
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• There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

  

  J. I. Packer
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