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The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Art, Separated, Preserved

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
Johnny Vegas

Christmas, Big, Treat

I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don't seem to be particularly keen on them.
Johnny Vegas

Family, Big, Seem

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
Martha Beck

Play, Else, Until

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
Edouard Manet

True, Again, Begin

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
John Podhoretz

War, Reality, Country

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
John Podhoretz

History, Him, American

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?
Jonathan Carroll

Time, Women, Men

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
Xun Zi

Nature, Tired, Emotional

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
Garrett Hardin

Family, Society, Human

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.
Clara Barton

Done, Him, Through

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
Daniel Craig

Life, Movies, Wanted

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Life, Love, Before

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.
Evelyn Waugh

Sleep, Why, Year

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
Carlos Santana

Blues, Player, Okay

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Harold Pinter

Attitude, Iraq, Western

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
Elizabeth Warren

Work, Someone, Worry

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
Shirley Manson

Band, Aggressive, Laid

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
Brett Favre

Life, Family, Important

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
Ron Fournier

War, Felt, False

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
Venus Williams

Focus, Ignore, Try

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
Jon Meacham

Life, Future, May

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.
Eric Davis

Life, Getting, Inspired

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.
Anna Quindlen

Almost, Listen, Sermon

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.
Antonio Banderas

Life, Movies, Forget

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Rock, Human

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
Jane Smiley

Life, Thought, Write

Seek home for rest, for home is best.
Thomas Tusser

Best, Home, Seek

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow

Country, California, Limb

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.
Jeff Foxworthy

Family, Good, Country

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