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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.
Christian Bale

Stupid, Old, Found

I remember how to be a person by being around them.
Natalie Portman

Person, Remember

We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
Luke Scott

God, Freedom, Character

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.
Joan Didion

Good, Bad, Someone

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
Mickey Mantle

Tough, Easy, Running

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
Larry Page

Society, Problem, Growth

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
Rachel Weisz

Envy, Thought, Confident

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
Jason Reitman

Family, True, Feeling

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
Henry J. Kaiser

Everyone, Progress, Listening

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J. G. Ballard

Science, Technology, Speak

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
Mary Oliver

Happiness, Time, Great

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
Bob Woodward

Food, Smart, Fight

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
Joan Collins

Waiting, Book, Career

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
Talib Kweli

Time, Him, Until

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.
Sylvia Browne

God, Dad, Mother

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.
Carrie Underwood

Either, Ride, Milk

I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
Venus Williams

Problems, Kids, Grow

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
Venus Williams

Loss, Corner, Complacent

I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Age, Women

I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
Ellie Goulding

Crazy, Everything, Friends

I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Hard, Working

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.
Eric Bana

Times, Walk, Either

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Good, Flowers, Played

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.
Steve Irwin

Funny, Touch, Turn

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.
Novak Djokovic

Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.
Paula Deen

Afraid, Seasoning

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.
Paula Deen

Today, Care, Made

I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?
Vin Diesel

Why, Between, Picture

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
John Hawkes

Fear, Able, Cliche

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
Nigella Lawson

Time, Grief, Grieving

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