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She'd been taught all her life not to attack humans, but knocking them unconscious with tranquilizer guns was more of a gray area. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you. — Arianna Huffington

We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers. — Sheryl Sandberg

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss. — Talib Kweli

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies. — David Chase

If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last. — William McCune

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited ... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. — Bill Gates

Sometimes we're wrong when we think that we know the truth about our parents. — Jo Nesbo

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions. — David Halberstam

The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters. — Czeslaw Milosz

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort. — Robert A. Heinlein

and a hundred savage painted Indians ran howling down upon the inn yard. — Edward Eager

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate? — Sarah Jessica Parker

Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread. — Jef I. Richards

A man who drives a two-thousand-pound car at one hundred seventy miles per hour does not get flustered by the honking of the geese. — Garth Stein

Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy. — Steve Hanke