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If you win games, at the top, there's no pressure to change. You change when you have to change. You change when you don't win anymore.

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• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Wish
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Attracted

• What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Together
  • Brain

• I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Enjoy

• How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Live
  • Desert
  • Within

• I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Music
  • Think
  • Questions

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Feel
  • Body

• Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • Working
  • Invest

• I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Everyone
  • Farmers

• People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • God
  • Funny

• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Old
  • Youth

• I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Person
  • Playing
  • Genre

• What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Company

• When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Time
  • Real
  • Family

• lines 510–524, as translated by R. Potter (1860)

  

  Aeschylus

• Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Life
  • Work
  • Words

• To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Moving
  • Painting

• I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • May
  • Sun
  • Author

• Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Important
  • Personality
  • Identity

• If you win games, at the top, there's no pressure to change. You change when you have to change. You change when you don't win anymore.

  

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