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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

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• I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Artist
  • Use
  • Going

• It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Good
  • High

• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Agreed
  • Fable

• I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Good
  • Women
  • Violence

• My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Important
  • Children
  • Help

• I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Writing
  • Reader

• There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Like
  • Humor

• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Want

• I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Religious

• Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Gracious

• You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Limits
  • Riches
  • Principal

• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Equal

• I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Religion

• I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Play
  • Like
  • Try

• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Talk

• I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

  

  Mako
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Child

• Man is the hunter. Woman is the civilizing influence, and when women abandon that role, men become Cranky, and start wars.

  

  Nicole Hollander
  • Woman
  • Influence
  • Role

• Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Men
  • Genius
  • Abundant

• There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Book

• I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • America
  • Indian

• Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

  

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