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• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Important
  • Black

• We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Normal

• I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • People
  • Home
  • Day

• We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Love
  • Angry

• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Game
  • Free
  • Difference

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Man
  • Proud

• I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Year
  • Europe
  • Olympics

• Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Like
  • Never
  • Meat

• I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.

  

  Nas
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Hip Hop

• All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Age

• People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Power
  • Party

• On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Sex
  • Embrace
  • Mary

• I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Office

• It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Truth
  • Treasure

• I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, Macon County. Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Work

• A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Desire
  • Car
  • Drama

• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Important
  • Character
  • Opinion

• The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Learn

• You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Support
  • Fire
  • Marketing

• As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • World
  • Internet
  • Economic

• Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

  

  Ai-jen Poo