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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hope

• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Bored
  • Awards

• I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Society
  • Water

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Man
  • Himself

• I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Know
  • Rock

• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

  

  Ovid
  • Fortune
  • Prayers
  • Cowards

• I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Show
  • Favorite
  • Watch

• Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Art
  • College
  • Unknown

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Life
  • Education
  • My Life

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painting

• When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

  

  David Icke
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Real

• I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Understanding

• Grace is the divine assistance or heavenly help each of us desperately needs to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus, the enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Good
  • Power
  • Help

• I am very thankful for this opportunity. It is a privilege and honor for me to follow in the footsteps of my father. Everywhere he's gone, he's been full of integrity and passion. That's what I want to carry on.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Father
  • Opportunity
  • Passion

• I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

  

  Avi
  • Good