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Related His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES If you go to an ATM for a hundred dollars and it keeps spitting twenties, when would you walk away? ... KEVIN NASH Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done we... PATRICK ROTHFUSS He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform. JOE DAVIS In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it ... 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DOUGLAS ADAMS I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what... BRANDON SANDERSON I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Keeping the ball that long means we're running the ball well, we're putting long drives together and... DREW TATE As long as there are still dreams to dream,then there is abundant hope for the future. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 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GRACE JONES My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a su... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Basketball is a sport where you don?t need someone else to play with as long as there is a hoop in t... KC WALLEY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. [Jorge Posada, who in the second hit an 0-2] cookie ... David Wells is a guy who keeps you off-balan... DAVID WELLS There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not t... KEN HAM Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as... ERIC ROTH I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet. "You're lik... BRANDON SANDERSON It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include... SUSAN BARKER Quantum physics is quite interesting. All these tiny particles are there as much as they're not ... JERRY HALL And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know... EMILY WATSON The merely just can generally bear great virtues as little as great vices. JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can&... MICHAEL LEE-CHIN You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as ... ALBERT FINNEY The reality is that an inmate can get out if they so desire, but what keeps them there is the possib... HOWARD SKOLNIK That's the big key. Anytime you have an off night, as long as your defense is there, you can still s... DEDRICK FINN A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma. JOYCE MEYER For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. Thi... AMANDA HOWELLS Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. TOM STOPPARD You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... ROSALYNN CARTER I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high... ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY It's really interesting how music can knock down a wall and be an open connection between you an... PHILLIP SWEET Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many chan... DANA DELANY I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many peo... RODNEY KING As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the projec... AVA DUVERNAY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. CURTIS ARMSTRONG ISIL struck France because it is 'free' and 'the nation of human rights'. This is no... FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I think this is probably the first time I've ever had three walk-off home runs in the same year. But... BOB THOMAS There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is no... AGA KHAN IV We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on some... ERNEST ISTOOK Acting is an art form. 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KARRIE WEBB Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize th... COREY HAWKINS True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks. DEBASISH MRIDHA Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, ... ARA PARSEGHIAN Life is a journey of discovery and growth where you can learn the things you need to know as you go ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Before a game, I avoid having a heavy meal so that I don't feel sleepy at the board. You eat to ... VISWANATHAN ANAND I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someon... JOE NAMATH Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is co... RACHEL CUSK There are a lot of accomplishments and victories you can make along the way of a race as long as thi... JACKIE BROWN Disability is as visual as race. If a wheelchair user can't play Beyonce, then Beyonce can't... MAYSOON ZAYID As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: ... RUSH LIMBAUGH I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer ... ELIZABETH WARREN There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex... DAVID BYRNE I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but the... QUENTIN BLAKE This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS
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