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What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

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• I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • Different
  • History

• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Religious
  • Compassion

• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick
  • Eye
  • Ball
  • Your

• I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Recognize

• I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Kingdom

• There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Good
  • Progress

• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Small
  • Grow
  • Manufacturing

• I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Read
  • Lot
  • Nerdy

• If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Vote
  • Got
  • Pen

• I love Westerns!

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Westerns

• I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Business
  • Genius

• If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Want
  • Search
  • Discovery

• Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Book
  • Style
  • Purpose

• Existence is its own justification, need is right.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Memory is your image of perfection.

  

  Barbara Kruger

• 'Summon him forth,' instructed the Will. 'Let justice be meted out. There is much to do, you know, Arthur.' 'You'd think we could 'ave a cup of tea and biscuit first,' muttered Suzy.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Justice
  • Tea

• We cannot help but see the person in one way or other and place our constructions or interpretations on 'his' behaviour, as soon as we are in a relationship with him.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Help
  • Relationship

• Even when I was winning my fights, once it's over, it's over. It's in the past, and you've got to look forward.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Past
  • Winning

• This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Death

• Rick Scott's my friend. And I think he's done a great job. And it's my experiences with him that are part of the reason I'm running for Senate.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Great
  • Done
  • Job

• What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan