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What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

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• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Look

• I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Live
  • Write

• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Cool
  • Timeline

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Hate

• One must act in painting as in life, directly.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Act

• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Trouble
  • Big
  • Getting

• We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • American
  • Leadership

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Important
  • Money
  • Man

• If you want to get along, go along.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Want
  • You
  • Go

• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Find

• Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Kids

• Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

  

  Lorrie Fair
  • World
  • Practice
  • Soccer

• I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • People
  • Work
  • Journey

• If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trust

• Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Doubt

• In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.

  

  Peter Riegert
  • Age
  • Hand

• What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

  

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