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We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things. — John Deacon

I almost laugh. My great act of heroism, the only important thing I have ever done, and they think I was working for the Erudite when I did it. — Veronica Roth

I've never cared about how successful or how big I was going to be. I just wanted to be part of a story that affected people, made them laugh or cry. To me, that was more important than having my face on some billboard. — Matt Bomer

A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible. — Elmore Leonard

I wish someone would promise me that nothing is meaningless," he said. "I wish there were promises worth believing in. That after we've been hunted and lonely and anxious and living in fear, there is something else. Considering the way we are living right now, if we were young at the end of our lives instead, then maybe our dreams could come true. — Kyung-Sook Shin

One peek inside his top drawer had been enough for Sophie. Swimming goggles, nail clippers, a Ferragamo tie wound into a tight coil, and packets of Gulden's Spicy Brown Mustard. None of that compared to Ira Blumenstein's gold tooth, Kenneth Yang's Darth Vader lollipop, or Rich Angstrom's Magic 8 Ball. — Laura Hemphill

He hands me a paper sack. I don't need to open it to know what's inside. There's a smudge of grease at the bottom. — Fausto Brizzi

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me. — Cecilia Bartoli

A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction. — Anders Ericsson

To be sure, there are hunter-gatherer societies that don't exhibit the elaborately organized violence denoted by the term "war." But often what turns out to be lacking is the organization, not the violence. The warless !Kung San were billed in the title of one book as The Harmless People, yet during the 1950s and 1960s, their homicide rate was between 20 and 80 times as high as that found in industrialized nations.114 Eskimos, to judge by popular accounts, are all cuddliness and generosity. Yet early this century, after westerners first made contact with a fifteen-family Eskimo village, they found that every adult male had been involved in a homicide. One reason the !Kung and most Eskimo haven't waged war is their habitat.115 With population sparse, friction is low. But when densely settled along fertile ground, hunter-gatherers have warred lavishly. The Ainu of Japan built hilltop fortresses and, when raiding a neighboring — Robert Wright

Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul of the individual. I know of no way that this can be done save through the influence of religion and education. By religion I do not mean fanaticism or bigotry; by education I do not mean the cant of the schools, but a broad and tolerant faith, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and a training and experience that enables the human mind to see into the heart of things. — Calvin Coolidge

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird. — Celia Imrie

The florid style is the reverse of the familiar. The last is employed as an unvarnished medium to convey ideas; the first is resorted to as a spangled veil to conceal the want of them. When there is nothing to be set down but words, it costs little to have them fine. — William Hazlitt

As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that. — Gail Kim