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I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender… — Kristen Bell
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. — Robert Benchley
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and… — Robert Benchley
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. — Warren G. Bennis
Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school… — Ezra Taft Benson
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next… — John Berger
The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance,… — Nicolas Berggruen
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is,… — Isaiah Berlin
Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete… — Donald Berwick
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes… — Ambrose Bierce
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. — Ambrose Bierce
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. — Theodor Adorno
What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy. — Juliette Binoche
If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better. — Juliette Binoche
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. — Augustine Birrell
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan,… — Mary J. Blige
Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the… — Jacqueline Bisset
What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height… — Lewis Black
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation… — Lewis Black
What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the… — Lewis Black
Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count. — Ritchie Blackmore
However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. — Tony Blair
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another,… — William Blake

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