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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Alfred Nobel

Peace, Death, After

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'
Katherine Heigl

Good, Pretty, Idea

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
Richard Pryor

Work, Money, Black

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.
Amy Winehouse

Home, Him, Boyfriend

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
Kanye West

Time, Tell, Joke

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Mahalia Jackson

Time, Important, Long

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
Joan of Arc

Best, Morning, Today

I leave from where the apostle arrived.
Pope Benedict XVI

Arrived, Apostle

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
Iain Duncan Smith

Politics, Others, Moment

The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.
Arlen Specter

Work, Light, Among

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.
Lewis Thomas

Whatever, Touch, Ourselves

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.
Amanda Peet

Room, Whenever, Kevin

I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.
Mindy Kaling

Love, Time, Long

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
James Buchan

Power, Future, Making

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph W. Sockman

Life, Good, Control

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
Arthur Eddington

Wise, Sun, Light

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Death, Mistakes, Drunk

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
James Lovelock

Nature, Survive, Favors

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.
Satyajit Ray

Done, Sometimes, Place

No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.
Jeremy Irons

Work, Hard, Happen

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.
Cynthia Nixon

Time, Hard, Working

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
Willa Cather

Hard, Place, Paris

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman

Work, Car, Live

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.
Christian Bale

Movies, Nothing, Else

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
Alice Cooper

Made, Moment, Public

When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
Alexander Payne

Positive, Nice, Made

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Good, Together, Made

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
Jesse Jackson

Health, True, Care

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
Jesse Jackson

God, Men, Children

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
Dan Savage

Equality, Alone, Gay

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