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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

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When in trouble, praise and thank God. To show a higher level of faith, actually sleep off the problem. This shows you trust God to sort it out.

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Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

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$I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.$

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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

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If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

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The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

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I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

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I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

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Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Tony Robbins

I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Toyin Odutola

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

Toyin Odutola

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

Toyin Odutola

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Toyin Odutola

It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

Toyin Odutola

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

Richard Branson

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Richard Branson

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Charles R. Swindoll

Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

Charles R. Swindoll

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Charles Spurgeon

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Larry Page

Larry Page

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Larry Page

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

Ralph Nader

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

Larry Page

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Larry Page

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

Larry Page

Larry Page

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

Larry Page

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Larry Page

When in trouble, praise and thank God. To show a higher level of faith, actually sleep off the problem. This shows you trust God to sort it out.

Enoch Adeboye

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

Christian Dior

Jack Dorsey

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

Jack Dorsey

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

Christina Aguilera

I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.

Christina Aguilera

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

Claude Monet

I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.

Claude Monet

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Seth Godin

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Clint Eastwood

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

Clint Eastwood

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Clint Eastwood

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Clint Eastwood

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.