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I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'
Jude Law

Older, Less, Pressure

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
Ozzy Osbourne

Judge, Saying, Book

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
Richard Gere

Karma, Strong, Past

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
Brian Eno

Learning, Whole, Engineers

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
Toni Morrison

Black, Lives, Constant

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.
Taylor Swift

Funny, Remember, Else

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.
Taylor Swift

Great, Give, Awesome

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Simone Weil

Work, Great, Best

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
Simone Weil

True, Loyalty, Soul

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Simone Weil

Great, Human, Him

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
James Cash Penney

Great, Men, Small

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Jim Henson

Art, Design, Off

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo

Reality, Through, Whatever

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Doris Lessing

Political, Free, Tell

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.
Hedy Lamarr

Live, Mean, Bakery

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
David Hockney

Art, Experience, Trying

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.
Frank Langella

Sexy, Woman, Her

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Jon Stewart

Great, Someone, Ruin

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.
Steven Spielberg

Divorce, Heard, Committed

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.
Steven Spielberg

Important, Proud, Growing

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
Salma Hayek

Love, Power, Husband

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
Cat Stevens

Love, Music, She

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
Jerry Garcia

Stuff, Scary, Hidden

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford

Getting, Golf, Hitting

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu

Nature, Leader, Vacuum

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
Paul Auster

Job, Through, Difficult

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
Jerry Seinfeld

Fun, Laugh, Friends

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'
Jerry Seinfeld

Women, Men, Advice

I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.
Adele

Heart, Someone, Giving

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
Dolly Parton

Children, Responded

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