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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

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• I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • Research
  • Medical

• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Time
  • School
  • Small

• I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Woman
  • Fart

• We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Women
  • Home
  • Management

• I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.

  

  Ma Long
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Olympic

• Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Change
  • Color
  • Makeup

• I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Smart

• A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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  • Like
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• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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  • Book
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• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
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  • Song
  • Take

• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
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• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

  

  T. H. White
  • World

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.

  

  Adam Green
  • Think
  • You
  • Hand

• I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Good
  • Pretty

• One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • You
  • Need

• Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

  

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