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Skiing sand in midday sun was impossible - the sand becomes hot and abrasive.

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• In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Nothing
  • Skill

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Attention

• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genius
  • Intelligence
  • Early

• There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Boy

• Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Truth Is

• I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Wear
  • Michael
  • Stuart

• Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Identity
  • Europe
  • European

• It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Come
  • Version
  • Initiative

• We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Truth
  • Freedom

• What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • August

• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• Tonight this chamber speaks with one voice to the people we represent: It is you, our citizens, who make the state of our union strong.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Strong

• O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!

  

  Walter Scott
  • High
  • Ambition

• I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.

  

  Brooke Elliott
  • Time

• For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.

  

  Daniela Pestova
  • Exercise
  • Chocolate
  • Puppy

• When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Good
  • Book
  • Words

• Fake fat, fake colours, fake flavours, fake sweeteners: this is poison.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Fake

• 'It's about how boys become men - and why it takes women to make that transformation possible.'

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Skiing sand in midday sun was impossible - the sand becomes hot and abrasive.

  

  Candide Thovex
  • Sun
  • Skiing