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My Life
Stocking
I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
- A. James Clark
I Was Born
Settled
Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
- Aaron Klug
Bright
Like
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
- Aaron Klug
Thought
Like
The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
- Aaron Neville
Standard
Set
My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
- Abby Wambach
Which
In The Past
In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Think
I Think
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
- Abdullah II of Jordan
Call
Very
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
- Abigail Adams
Necessary
Belly
It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
- Abraham Maslow
Remember
His
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
- Abraham Polonsky
Sometimes
Very
Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
- Adam Ant
Learn
Sure
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
- Adam Driver
Better
More
Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
- Adam Grant
Kind
Been
It's great to see that kind of support online. For people to be messaging myself, my nan and the rest of my family, all the support has been great.
- Adam Peaty
Thought
Go
I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
- Adam Peaty
Think
Very
Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows.
- Adam Rayner
Resting
Lay
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
My Life
Give
I had to make lifestyle changes and stick to them for the rest of my life. For instance, I've had to give up bread, rice, sugar, and oil completely.
- Adnan Sami
Country
Which
We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.
- Adoniram Judson
Career
Cops
I'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.
- Aisha Tyler
Feet
Other
Usually after a shot, we look for a chair to rest our feet. In 'Oopiri,' it was the other way around. After every shot, I was on my feet, walking around the set trying to get the blood circulation in my legs working properly.
- Akkineni Nagarjuna
News
Means
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
- Al Franken
Question
Increasingly
The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
- Al Gore
My Life
I Write
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
- Al Yankovic
Harmony
Atmosphere
Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.
- Alain Ducasse
Country
Downtown
A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done.
- Alan Autry
Over
Figure
I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
- Alan Cox
My Life
Brazil
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
- Alan Furst
Finance
Wholly
Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.
- Alan Greenspan
Last
Figure
If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
- Alan Jackson
Making
Very
Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.
- Alan Parker
Deep
Batteries
When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
- Alanis Morissette
Mine
Set
Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.
- Alber Elbaz
Movie
Cut
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
- Albert Brooks
God
Thoughts
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
- Albert Einstein
My Life
Could
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
- Alberto Giacometti
New
In The Past
Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.
- Alden Ehrenreich
Cookbook
Once
Once you make a cookbook, you live with it as your own for the rest of your life, like a yearbook.
- Alex Guarnaschelli
Mountains
Sings
There are two kinds of climbers: those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.
- Alex Lowe
My Life
Over
I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.
- Alex Pareene
Created
Sealed
People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world.
- Alex Steffen
Woman
Give
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
- Alexander McQueen
Face
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
- Alexander Pope
Always
Studio
I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.
- Alexander Wang
Through
Very
Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
- Alexander Wang
Doing
Africa
In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
- Alexandra Fuller
Graduation
May
I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
- Alexandra Guarnaschelli
Take
Prefer
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
- Alexandre Dumas
World
Greece
Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.
- Alexis Tsipras
Law
Wealth
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
- Alfred Marshall
Love
My Life
I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me.
- Ali Larter
My Life
Expect
I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.
- Ali MacGraw
May
Soul Mate
Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition as something like being attached to a soul mate.
- Alice Dreger
Teach
Will
I will settle down & teach for the rest of my days.
- Alice Paul
Sabbath
Surely
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
- Alice Walker
Responsibility
Young
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
- Alice Walker
Think
Some
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
- Alice Walker
Week
Every Day
During the week I have workout every day from 9 to noon, then I get to rest, then back to the gym from 4:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.
- Alicia Sacramone
Often
Recipes
One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.
- Alicia Silverstone
Shut
Surrounding
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
- Alison Gopnik
Life
Your
What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.
- Alison Sweeney
Became
Britain
'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!
- Alison Weir
Believe
Having
I don't believe in having a rest day.
- Alistair Brownlee
Desire
Racing
We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.
- Allan McNish
Learn
Like
There are lots of things about me that aren't like the rest of my friends. But I try to learn as much about millennials as I can so I can stay afloat among them.
- Allison Williams
Teen
Potent
Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice.
- Alycia Debnam-Carey
Self-Esteem
Based
The power that you have as a young woman, unless you have great self-esteem, is largely based on how the rest of the world reacts to you. And so it's kind of a superficial confidence that you have, you know?
- Amanda de Cadenet
Analytical
Very
The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
- Amartya Sen
Karma
Author
As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
- Amish Tripathi
I Am
Passport
I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.
- Amit Bhatia
Business
Weekends
I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends.
- Amy Bloom
My Life
Doing
I'm sure I'll be doing something of social or political worth the rest of my life.
- Amy Carter
Compete
Tell
When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.
- Amy Chow
Think
I Think
I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.
- Ana Ortiz
Having
Raising
My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.
- Andie MacDowell
Goal
My Life
My goal is to do cartwheels for the rest of my life.
- Andie MacDowell
One Percent
Had
I realize that I'm in the top one percent of the world. I've traveled a lot. I've seen immense poverty in the world, and I can't live with everything I've had and be comfortable with everything I have unless I do something for the rest of the world.
- Andie MacDowell
Work
Use
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
- Andre Gide
Still
Heartily
Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.
- Andrea McLean
Literature
Read
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
- Andrew Bird
Perfect
Bodies
Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.
- Andrew Weil
Mind
Over
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
- Andrew Wiles
Teacher
Six
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
- Andy Rooney
Grow
Will
Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.
- Andy Serkis
College
My Life
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
- Andy Summers
Wrong Way
Dad
If I played Bond, my dad probably wouldn't know what to do with himself. He'd probably put his shoes on the wrong way for the rest of his life!
- Aneurin Barnard
Huge Difference
Am
There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.
- Angel Haze
Allow
Making
But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
- Angela Davis
Mother
Took
My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
- Angie Everhart
Think
Very
I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.
- Anita Brookner
Strong
Small
Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.
- Anita Elberse
Been
Andre
I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.
- Ann Leckie
Year
Very
My family owned a furniture/appliance store near Kingston, Jamaica. I worked there all summer but lived in a very structured environment the rest of the year at an all-girl Catholic boarding school.
- Ann-Marie Campbell
Caught
Resonates
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
- Anna Deavere Smith
Think
Mattered
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
Death
Pass
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
- Anne Boleyn
Delusion
Separate
Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate from the rest of existence is a psychosis that spins us into virulence.
- Anohni
Play
Career
I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.
- Ansel Elgort
My Life
Die
I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.
- Anthony Bourdain
Die
Career
I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
- Anthony Bourdain
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