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Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

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• My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Father
  • Amazing

• There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • California
  • Building

• Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Single
  • Health
  • Care

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Me

• The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Question

• No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. ... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. ... For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Heart
  • Hate

• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Art
  • Faith

• He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later-it might; it does!-but because it’s obnoxious now.

  

  Adam Gopnik

• I was sixteen when suddenlyI wasn't that little girl you used to see.But your eyes still shined like pretty lights,And our daddies used to joke about the two of us.They never believed we'd really fall in love.And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyesAnd said oh my my my...

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • World
  • Hope
  • Peace

• I'm never writing as a character.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Writing
  • Character

• I am really Method-y.

  

  Breckin Meyer

• There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Taken

• My love for football and the players are always very strong.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Strong
  • Football

• The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.

  

  James Hilton
  • Science
  • Chaos
  • Storm

• Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

  

  M.I.A.
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