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“The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.”

Thinking Morning Tree Fine Ego Roots Flourishing Sprouts

Author:Ramakrishna

“Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.”

Moments Running Night Stage Fine Bed Nervous Every Night Mics

Author:Ringo Starr

“I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.”

Littles Self Faces Stuff Lines Design Pride Fine Ego Conscious Your Face Self Conscious Fine Lines

Author:Shepard Fairey

“A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.”

People Years Art Important Matter Able Wanted Artist Felt Streets Fine Survival Decided Studios Cash Fine Arts Street Art

Author:Shepard Fairey

“I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.”

Way Whole Attitude Fine My Way Laissez Faire

Author:Alice Sebold

“I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.”

People Actors Fine Fame Directors

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“For me, having kids put so much into perspective. I wasn't so worried about my career and what I did or didn't achieve. Because, suddenly, I was like, "As long as this baby is healthy and safe, everything else is fine."”

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Author:Milla Jovovich

“My parents told me they knew they made lots of mistakes raising us, but that they did their best. Most parents will say something like that at some point, and they are usually right. But I think children also do their best while being raised. Finding family "happiness" is a fine balancing act.”

Thinking Children Made Parent Mistake Fine Findings Raised Balancing Act

Author:Torill Kove

“It's fine to be sexy, but you can be sexy without licking a hammer!”

Fine Sexy Hammers Licking

Author:Katie Uhlaender

“Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.”

People Ifs Want Helping Fine Paper

Author:Art Alexakis

“If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.”

Ifs Book Beautiful Conditions Fine Kings Clothes Garden Wine Dinner Coaches Servant Palaces Beautiful Clothes

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine.”

Important Today Fine Safe Mark Important Things Accidents Nasty

Author:Christian Horner

“My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.”

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Author:Val Kilmer

“Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.”

Art Wish Poor Powerful Rich Fine Climate France Beggar Vineyards Destitute Powerful Friends

Book:Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist

Source: Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist

“I do what I believe in. I do good work, and the people who appreciate it, fine, and those who don't, fine, that's good.”

People Believe I Believe Fine Appreciate I Believe In Good Work

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.”

Art School Three Week Changed College Fine Majors Theater Painter Fine Arts

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“Destroy everything. That's all well and fine, but you got to offer something in it's place. Since I always have a point and purpose to what I do, thats why people accuse me of being calculated. it's the way I am. I always know my next move. I could never conjure up a death wish, this is all I have is life. I don't know what comes next, and frankly I'm in no rush to find out. I don't believe in playing a martyr just for the sheer hell of it. And for something as chidish as Rock 'N' Roll is not on.”

People Knows Way Believe Wells Moving Purpose Next Wish Hell Rocks Fine Offers Don't Believe Rock N Roll Sheer Martyr Death Wish Next Move

Author:John Lydon

“The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.”

Eye Earth Heaven Poet Fine Rolling Glances Frenzy Airy Midsummer Midsummer Night's Dream Mid Summer Nights Dream

Author:William Shakespeare

“Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.”

Fine Solitude Definite

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children to read bills, laws, court cases, legislative debates, executive decrees, and bureaucratic policies. They read them in schoolrooms and at home....They said they would consider their children uneducated if they didn't read such things.”

Ifs Children Said Done Home Law Cases Generations Policy Taught Fine Bills Court Debate Executives Print They Said Founding Decree Uneducated Law Courts Court Cases Fine Print

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally be the House. It's fine to gamble, as long as you're the House. Also, listen to critical feedback, particularly from friends. Generally they will be thinking it but they won't tell you.”

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Author:Elon Musk

“Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.”

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Author:Joan Crawford

“Jim Ross you're a fine one to talk about how someone is dressed.”

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Author:Jerry Lawler

“I'm a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It's real escapism, it's like everything's alright. It's like the world is happening now in a far away city. Everything's fine.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.”

Ifs Needs Children Book Past Brain Fine Civilization Convinced Tunes Collectives Children's Books

Book:Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups

Source: Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups

“Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.”

Ifs May Seems Wish Fine Faults Word Of God Honorable Garments Robes

Author:Pope Gregory I

“I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.”

Want Real Country Shows Bigs Wanted Names Boys Fine Decent

Author:Ed Sullivan

“I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.”

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Author:Nicole Holofcener

“Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.”

Ifs Want Book Choices My Own Fine Absence Socialism Inherent Iphone Pretzels

Author:Rand Paul

“There are really cool or funny videos, or visually stunning photos, and that's fine, but none of them really give you more when you close that tab, you know? I try to find stuff that a little bit, in a tiny way changes how you see something about the world.”

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Author:Maria Popova

“You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.”

Stills Real Fine Hero Very Good Vices Vice Versa Djs Spun Turntables

Author:DJ Shadow

“People love drama, and if you aren't really interested in perpetuating that, it keeps you from exploding on a mainstream stage. I'm totally fine with that.”

People Ifs Stage Fine Drama Mainstream Exploding Perpetuating Love Drama

Author:DJ Shadow

“I'm not making a movie about the real people. I'm making a movie about what they did, and what happened to them. But I will create characters so that I can have the freedom to make them say and do what I want. The real-life journalists were fine with that.”

People Want I Can Real Character Happened Fine Real Life Journalist

Author:Richard Shepard

“Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.”

Ifs Want Writing Home Happens Party Fine Reader Reviews

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.”

Trying Firsts Wanted Forget Failing Fine First Time Tradition Forget You Hooked

Author:Laurie Anderson

“I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.”

People Rooms Fine Critics Bunch Movie Critic

Author:Wesley Morris

“I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.”

Knows Giving Feels Has Beens Made Would Be Felt Advice Fine Amount Directors Shots Fairs Give Me Cameron

Author:Timothy Miller

“People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.”

People Wells Persons Art Hard Reality Games Fun Understanding Hard Work Fine Higher Letting Go Smart Art Is Worldly

Author:Jim Woodring

“I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.”

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Author:Laura Owens

“Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.”

Men Helping Problem Hands Sky Fine Pests Pest Control

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.”

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Author:Dean Cavanagh

“Donald Trump is the grandson of German immigrants. Don't worry. The last time a German guy with crazy hair took over a country, everything turned out fine.”

Country Lasts Guy Worry Crazy Hair Fine Trump Immigrants Last Time Grandson

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.”

Needs Stories Next Waiting Land Fine Details Sentences Prose Links Sweat Short Story Crave

Author:Tea Obreht

“I’m all mixed up inside. It’s like—I don’t know—like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I’m fine, and the next I’m losing it.”

Knows Kind Next Minutes Fine Losing One Minute

Author:Catherine Anderson

“Don’t let haters get me off my grind. Keep my head up, I know I’ll be fine. Keep fighting until I get there. When I’m down and I feel like giving up I whip my hair back and forth.”

Knows Giving Feels Fighting Hair Fine Giving Up Down And Back And Forth Grind Whips Heads Up Feel Like Giving Up

Author:Willow Smith

“Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.”

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Author:Tyler Cowen

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“I remember when I interviewed at MSNBC, one of the first things they said to me was, 'In your tapes, you had a mustache, right?' I said, 'Yeah, I recently took it off.' I said, 'If you hire me, you get to decide if you want it or not.' They said, 'No, no, we're fine with it now.'”

Ifs Want Firsts Said Remember Fine Yeah Tape They Said Remember When Mustache

Author:Lester Holt

“I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.' I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.' 'What does that mean?' 'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.”

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Book:God Is in the Pancakes

Source: God Is in the Pancakes

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