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• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Baby
  • Matter
  • Parent

• I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Chance
  • Hold

• 'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.

  

  K. Flay
  • Life
  • Dog
  • Compass

• Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Why
  • Trust
  • Should

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • You
  • Judge
  • Animals

• I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • American
  • Hope

• When such acting powerhouses take note of your work and express their appreciation, it is an overwhelming feeling. I could not believe it when Rishi ji tweeted. Then Amitji and Rekha ma'am sent handwritten letters, which I have read more than fifty times. 'Dangal' is a very special film for me, and these are my lifetime treasure.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Feeling

• I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Know
  • Answers
  • Clarity

• We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Think
  • Know
  • Appreciate

• Take My Picture, Hollywood! I Wanna Be a Star!

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Star
  • Picture

• The reflected world is the conquest of calm

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Calm

• Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.

  

  James Gleick
  • World
  • Long
  • Power

• Everything in moderation, like calories.

  

  Jimmy Smits

• Way to go, New York. One people. One planet. One love.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • People
  • Love
  • Planet

• I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Family
  • Grow
  • Market

• Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Experience
  • Context
  • Amplifies

• You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Way
  • Searching
  • Distrust

• It was incredible to have such a legend on the bench with us.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Legend
  • Incredible
  • Bench