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“After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.”

Years Return Parks Grandparent Hyde Hyde Park

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.”

Special Return Caught Stores Video Bunch Delusion Tape Towers

Author:Paul F. Tompkins

“Replacing it with a thought. I sometimes think, "What the hell. I have four working limbs right now. I'm winning just to even have the privilege of this experience!" Steering my brain onto this track of thought begins the process of being grateful for the lesson and returns my mind to a more peaceful place.”

Thinking Mind Sometimes Winning Process Brain Hell Four Return Lessons Right Now Grateful Privilege Track Peaceful Be Grateful Limbs Steering Peaceful Places

Author:Graham Shiels

“Olympus has been a much welcomed return to my Shakespearean roots. King Aegeus demanded a much greater range and depth that I've yet had the opportunity to tap on camera. Lab Rats was a wonderful opportunity for me to just go be a goofy buffoon, which I love. It was exhilarating to listen to all the funny lines the writers would come up with on the spot and then get to play them immediately.”

Has Beens Play Opportunity Lines Greater Wonderful Return Kings Roots Cameras Depth Come Up Spots Range Rats Labs Exhilarating Goofy Olympus Buffoons

Author:Graham Shiels

“I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The Four Agreements, A Return to Love, and The Power of Now helped me to overcome many internal battles. Had I not worked on myself, put value in myself, I would not have the loving and supportive people that I have right now in my life, including my husband and children”

“Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.”

Audience Alive Stage Missing Return Theater Performing Gratification Immediate Gratification

Author:Brendan Dooling

“I have long believed that Israel should seek to give up the so-called Occupied Territories in return for security, and that a Palestinian state should be established. I have felt that way all my life. I think it is unreasonable to ask the Israelis to do this in a context where there is no guarantee at all that suicide bombers will be controlled.”

Thinking Way Giving Should Long States Asks Felt Security Return Giving Up Suicide Israel Guarantees Controlled Territory Palestinian Unreasonable Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:Russ Feingold

“Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.”

People World Years Home Fighting Three Community Church Half Return Inspired Around The World Coming Home Pastor Freedom Of Religion Half A Year Idaho Unyielding

Author:Barack Obama

“Iran has agreed to deepen our coordination as we work to locate Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for more than eight years. Even as we rejoice in the safe return of others, we will never forget about Bob. Each and every day our hearts are with the Levinson family, and we will not rest until their family is whole again.”

Years Heart Whole Forget Missing Return Safe Eight Iran Never Forget Rejoice Bob Coordination Safe Return

Author:Barack Obama

“Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy Mercer is Eleanor Roosevelt's own secretary. Very beautiful young woman, not unlike Eleanor Roosevelt: tall, blonde, thick haired. And FDR is having an affair with her, which Eleanor Roosevelt finds out when FDR returns from Europe in 1918 with the famous flu of 1918.”

Firsts Wells Hard Beautiful Young Return Europe Affair Hard Times Tall Thick Secretary Young Women Flu Blonde Franklin Very Beautiful Lucy Eleanor

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.”

Years Levels New York Movement Return Involved Despair Liberation Eleanor Esther

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of thing - but also routine enforcement because think about, for instance, the IRS. They don't say, OK, well, if you're not a money launderer, it doesn't matter whether you fill your tax return out right or not. They have both. They go after the really bad actors and they have a kind of general, routine enforcement.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Kind Matter Actors Cases Focus Worst Return Drug Taxes Instance Routine Enforcement Gang Dealer Irs Drug Dealers Tax Returns

Author:Mark Krikorian

“By the way, if socialism is so damn hot, why doesn't the pope ask all Mexicans to return home? If capitalism is such a bad thing, why doesn't the pope say to every Cuban living in America, "Get the hell back to Cuba"?”

Ifs Way Home America Asks Hell Return Capitalism Hot Socialism Damn Bad Things Pope Cuba Cuban

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If we take the pope at his word and socialism is highly preferable to capitalism and he was really concerned about these people, he would demand they go home. He would demand they return to their homelands wherever they are, if they were socialist.”

People Ifs Home Return Demand Capitalism Concerned Socialism Socialist Pope Homeland

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.”

Needs Should Moments Used Individual Difficult Consciousness Return Machines Treats Tables Species Kingdoms Phrases Aspiration Kingdom Of God Surgeons Like Love

Author:George Pattison

“People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the neighborhood has been permanently sealed. It had been releasing methane and other pollutants into the air for four months. Thousands of people have complained of respiratory illnesses and other problems.”

People Wells Has Beens Problem Home Today Natural Four Air Months Return Starting Illness Gas Neighborhood Los Angeles Leaks Natural Gas Respiratory Methane

Author:Ari Shapiro

“You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.”

Needs Sound Tree Land Return Comfort Plant Zone Comfort Zone Cheesy Midwest Watercolors

Author:Lissie

“I think that the most significant, guiding principle was that we wanted to return to a three-piece live form, whereas we became a four-piece for the last record because the songs had more extensive arrangements and we needed a keyboard player to pull off a lot of those songs. We missed the energy, and more push-and-pull of the three-piece.”

Thinking Wanted Lasts Form Song Three Energy Principles Records Pieces Four Player Return Needed Significant Arrangements Keyboards Guiding Principles Keyboard Players

Author:Chris Cain

“There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.”

Mind Pain Pleasure Return Gratitude Benefits Species Revenge Obligation Impatient Inferiority Recompense Exacting Revenge

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.”

Ifs Seems Care Remember Humanity Return Birthday My Birthday

Book:The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

“Part of the concept of the euro zone was to establish a common market. The banks were going to bank across all their countries like we bank across states. But that concept got killed for a whole bunch of reasons that I won't get into. That was a good concept, by the way. It may yet return, because there are huge economies of scale in banking. That's another thing people don't quite get.”

People Way May Country States Reason Whole Common Economy Huge Return Concepts Scales Bunch Zone Banking Euro

Author:Jamie Dimon

“Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.”

Long Helping Return Our Time Boredom Bores Long Life Tedious Trifling

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Every time I've gone to Brazil I've gotten sick upon return. You know, it's just a different situation there. And I take every precaution - eating cooked foods and staying away from tap water, brushing my teeth with bottled water - and yet I still manage to get sick. So I'm just going to stay on point, bring my probiotics.”

Knows Stills Different Water Situation Gone Return Eating Sick Teeth Manage Staying Brazil Precaution Brushing Bottled Water Tap Water Probiotics

Author:Kerri Walsh

“In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.”

Ifs Way Tears Return Blessing Harder Accomplished Elites Olympics Gymnastics

Author:Shawn Johnson

“The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going to lend my money to governments who want me to pay them. I am going to go into the stock market where I can get positive returns!"”

People Ifs Want I Can Government Games Interest Pay Theory Return Negative Rate Silly Want Me Negative People Interest Rate

Author:Mohamed El-Erian

“I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.”

Children Able Spirit My Own Return Glad Innocence My Children

Author:Angelina Jolie

“When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.”

Persons Return Vote California Voting Texas Mexico Propositions Pencils

Author:Devendra Banhart

“If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.”

Ifs Firsts Matter Interest Pay Company Return Percent No Matter What Dollars Credit Cards Contribution Cents Credit Card

Author:Suze Orman

“Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and the actors. We put an ad in Back Stage West and in return we got almost 8,000 headshots from people who wanted to be in the film. We then do a process of selection and a rehearsal process after they are selected. The process of audition is very time consuming.”

People Way Bigs Wanted Film Actors Process Differences Rooms Stage Return West Studios Budgets Ads Auditions Selection Rehearsal Consuming Selected Time Consuming Headshots

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.”

People World Giving Today Process Return Dollars Focused Philanthropy Old World

Author:Peter Diamandis

“Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east...[Observation in 4th century B.C.]”

Years Morning Sun Fire Sky Century Position Return West East Disappear Observation Evening Jupiter

Author:Gan De

“Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."”

“Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you, multiplied, as if on wings, covered in sparkles.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Heart Purpose Return Wings Karma Glad Covered Sole Sparkle

Author:Mike Dooley

“Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.”

Art Book Soul Age Past Desire Suffering Dies Answers Secret Teach Doors Events Return Wit My Soul Preparation Melancholy Reviews Readiness Art And Science Mirth

Author:Petrarch

“The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.”

Giving Persons Feelings Strong Talking Wise Movement Listening Return Pulse Strong Relationship Talking And Listening

Book:The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

Source: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Magic is a two-way process: you use it to change yourself and in return, it changes you. Letting yourself enter a magical reality is not about creating an enclave of magic beyond your everyday life, but of allowing magic in- allowing for the intrusion of the weird, the irrational, the things you can't explain, yet are undeniably real.”

Way Two Real Use Reality Process Magic Return Creating Everyday Allowing Irrational Everyday Life Two Ways Intrusion Change Yourself

Author:Phil Hine

“From joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return.”

Joy Return Memorial

Author:Yajnavalkya

“Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask why. So we must return to the philosophy of law, the raison d'etre and the point of what we're asked to do. It's not easy, it's very demanding and it needs intellectual courage.”

Needs Ends Philosophy Action Law Asks Easy Goal Return Intellectual Ethics Aim Questioning Our Actions Raison D'etre

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The key question facing those of us working in the media (old and new) is whether we embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists and can't be resurrected. There is no question that, as the industry moves forward and we figure out the new rules of the road, there will be - and needs to be - a great deal of experimentation with new revenue models.”

“I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.”

People Men Want Mind Persons Black White Half Son Return Daughter Men And Women Intelligent Brown Black People Introducing Grandchildren Marrying Kinky Son And Daughter

Author:Muhammad Ali

“If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.”

Ifs Causes Return Habit Discipline Traits Again And Again Alas Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!”

Ifs Writing Believe Ideas Sometimes Problem Hands Loses Walks Return Happenings Don't Believe Block I've Learned Pencils Good Day Writer's Block Doodling

Author:Judy Blume

“Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.”

Important Real Return Areas Trade Democratic Leaving International Britain Regulation International Trade

Author:Gisela Stuart

“Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.”

Bigs Chance Class Return Higher Average Zero Broads Assets Probability Inexpensive

Author:Barry Ritholtz

“Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.”

Two Past Cases Wonderful Return Expensive Attributes

Author:Robert D. Arnott

“Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.”

Past Return Superiors

Author:Robert D. Arnott

“I believe that we live in a "return to sender universe" - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.”

Believe Universe I Believe Return Get Back

Author:Rachele Brooke Smith

“Chinese people are indignant. Indignant! For decades, despite everything, they tried to make peace with the West. They are in fact the most peaceful big nation on Earth and what do they get in return? They get insults, provocations and intimidation.”

People Facts Bigs Earth Nations Return West Decades Despite Peaceful Chinese Insult Making Peace Intimidation Provocation Indignant

Author:Andre Vltchek

“There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.”

World Trying Use Return Sacred Accumulation Diminishing Returns

Author:Marianne Williamson

“In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and imperialism was lost or abandoned more than 50 years ago. Let's face it: the world was never really completely de-colonized. It would be total hypocrisy to claim otherwise.”

World Years Would Be Faces Order Winning Lost Struggle Return Years Ago Claims Independence Western Hypocrisy Abandoned Colonialism Imperialism Scenarios

Author:Andre Vltchek

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