Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that,… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
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I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
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I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally. — Jeff Lynne Copy Share Image
The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I started wrestling in Coventry in a run-down community centre just on mats, we didn't even have a ring. — Pete Dunne Copy Share Image
I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Even though 'La La La' was a massive success, you don't want to take it for granted. — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Losing sucks. Nobody wants to be known for losing; you can't even have fun when you're losing. — Nick Young Copy Share Image
Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
Even the multiplex audience wants this flavour. No big-budget film can be a commercial hit until it does well both at multiplexes… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important. — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
It was actually pretty difficult to grow up in the Star City. There were regular kids around me, and everybody knew that… — Roman Romanenko Copy Share Image
It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
In 1974 or 1975, if someone had told me I was going to be an Olympic champion, I would not have believed… — Edwin Moses Copy Share Image
I don't think people really take pneumonia seriously when they hear it. But people really die from pneumonia: kids, older people, even… — JaVale McGee Copy Share Image
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had… — Ben Daniels Copy Share Image
With external help, even the countries ravaged by World War II recovered. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
There are some extremely acceptable male comedians out there: Joel Osteen, Abraham Lincoln, the man who played Phil Spector in HBO's 'Phil… — Ellie Kemper Copy Share Image
Human beings are complex and flawed, our logic for white lies and our lifelong dissembling evades even ourselves. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
