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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

• I resolved passionately to reach the spiritual causes of phenomena, and to dominate the material world which I detested by their means. I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • World
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• I think we are just so far away from the political elite. Whether you are on one side or the other, you're still part of that group.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • Political

• The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Goal
  • Spiritual Life
  • Traits

• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Doing

• You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.

  

  Richard Stanley
  • People
  • Movies
  • Situation

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

  

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