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• We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

  

  Dale Archer
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Inspire
  • Bold
  • Timidity

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • School
  • Dinner

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Things
  • Everyday

• The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Courage
  • Go

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • World
  • Different
  • Money

• The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Math

• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Support

• Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Up
  • Going
  • Everyone

• First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Oppressed

• I love working in New York.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Love
  • Working
  • New York

• The only one who can change the heart of man is the Lord. And that will make us want to make things fair for other people.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • People
  • Heart

• I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

  

  David Hoffman
  • Trust
  • Hard
  • Arguing

• For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.

  

  Frederic Louis Sauser
  • Purpose
  • Winning
  • Cutting

• I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Good
  • Nature

• Trust ivrybody-but cut th' cards.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
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