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Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

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• I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Identity

• In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Different
  • Important
  • Day

• Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Think

• Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • Basic
  • Traits

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • True
  • Man

• If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • World
  • Nice
  • Football

• I'm looking for all the things that are beneficial in the human genome. Everything that I do is based on a very simple principle: things that are beneficial will spread through populations very quickly.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Simple
  • Will
  • Looking

• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Art
  • Joke
  • Salt

• Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my nationality when they were picking teams because, just by the look of me, they would think that I was a great soccer player.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Great
  • Think
  • Player

• Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • People
  • Truth
  • Desire

• The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Earth
  • Freedom
  • Spiritual

• I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Write
  • Difficult
  • Finish

• Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Dad

• What happened this far remote would have little political impact on Earth. What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Long
  • Political
  • Earth

• The way I work takes more time for me to get satisfaction. So it's better to take lesser load and do better work. Money can be earned anytime.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

  

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Children
  • America

• I mean, to see somebody else when they put so much work into whatever they do... that inspires me. My dad, he does that very much so. An actor that I really look up to is Johnny Depp. The amount of work that he puts into his stuff, he is such an amazing actor I think!

  

  Corbin Bleu Reivers
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• John, forgive me... for what I can't help doing.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Help

• Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

  

  Richard Adams
  • People
  • Destroyed
  • Cunning

• Given Bob's investment style, which is long-term, focused on core holdings, it's really not best for the shareholders in the fund to have a lot of new money washing in and washing out, ... We're trying to get a more stable cash flow.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Money

• Mannerism is when you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Ideas
  • Happens
  • Mannerisms

• In the old days, there were three networks, and all of a sudden, Walter Cronkite is the most trusted man in America. Everybody believes what he says, not even thinking. In those days, we didn't even know it was being spun. We were very willing to just listen to it and go along with.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Thinking
  • America

• Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Up
  • Fear

• Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

  

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