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Related It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is... DREW BREES It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
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ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be... RENEE JAMES More important, it's because God is our only true source of life. CRAIG GROESCHEL Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because... BRENE BROWN When you start talking about why something happened or why it was done a certain way on a project, t... TOM HAMILTON It would just seem odd not dropping something in the basket, almost like not going to Communion, or ... ROBERT DUFFY My parents were born in Africa [and] can speak Swahili, and that's how they communicate with each ot... CHIRAG PATEL In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have. NOAH FELDMAN If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do ... 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MAURICE PTITO Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a... DOUGLAS ADAMS So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or tha... JEANETTE WINTERSON Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of scul... BASIL BUNTING And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people al... MARK HADDON And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we... PHILIP PULLMAN I just feel like it's got to be about the process and about the doing of it, rather than be about ho... THANDIE NEWTON Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and go... GARY HAMEL People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a k... 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MARTIN FELDMAN It gives this tobacco company an icon that no other tobacco company has. Their production facilities... MARTIN FELDMAN I think litigation is not getting any worse in the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom and in Euro... MARTIN FELDMAN A deal that the tobacco companies will sign into if there is going to be one, will involve structuri... MARTIN FELDMAN This has essentially devastated the most threatening legal aspect of the claim to the tobacco indust... MARTIN FELDMAN People lie because they need to present themselves as competent and worthy. Money is one key way peo... ROBERT FELDMAN Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printe... TIMOTHY NOAH To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable. YANNICK NOAH I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Ca... JOAKIM NOAH I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland. YANNICK NOAH During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally ... TREVOR NOAH The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain. TIMOTHY NOAH The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want... TREVOR NOAH What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no resp... TIMOTHY NOAH You have two choices, two paths to take as a comedian. You can tackle the difficult subjects and be ... TREVOR NOAH No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. NOAH PORTER Another source of power in government is a military force. But this, to be efficient, must be superi... NOAH WEBSTER Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something a... NOAH WEBSTER Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are. NOAH PORTER The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revil... TIMOTHY NOAH We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommoda... TREVOR NOAH Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I ... NOAH BAUMBACH You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. YANNICK NOAH It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my ... JOAKIM NOAH You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to p... TIMOTHY NOAH I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm ve... NOAH BAUMBACH The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not th... NOAH WEBSTER It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine so... NOAH WEBSTER In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all ch... NOAH WEBSTER No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any govern... NOAH WEBSTER The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot ... TIMOTHY NOAH We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells. TREVOR NOAH