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Man Conservative Average

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

- A. E. Housman

More Often Fundamental

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

- Alison Gopnik

Love I Think Some

I'm inspired by being in a different town every day - all the people I meet, all the things I see. There's no way of compartmentalizing everything in my head; whatever I'm taking in is coming out in some way. I think I love painting so much because, for me, it's so fast. There's not too much thought in these paintings.

- Alison Mosshart

Independent Been England

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

- Alison Moyet

Could One Of The Things

One of the things I wanted to do with 'The Turn' was write a production of songs that could be stripped down to one or two instruments if you chose to do it.

- Alison Moyet

Thought Crappy I Remember

There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.

- Alison Sweeney

Guard Killer Point Guard

I wasn't a point guard. I was a killer.

- Allen Iverson

Focus Like Away

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

- Allen Klein

Dress Think I Think

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

- Allison Williams

Telling Other Stopped

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

- Alonzo Mourning

Love Given Displeasure

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

- Alphonsus Liguori

Through Asking Attract

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.

- Alton Brown

World Other Too

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

- Alvar Aalto

Woman Abortion Her

Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?

- Alveda King

Abortion Fundamental

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

- Alveda King

Then Senator Obama

If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.

- Alveda King

Society Stop Petrol

Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It's crazy.

- Alycia Debnam-Carey

Career Why Replied

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

Jihad Afghan

Jihad is the Afghan bling.

- Aman Mojadidi

Legs Pretty Maintain

Waxing my legs is pretty much the only thing I have to maintain.

- Amanda Seyfried

Rules Basketball Lot

There're a lot of rules to basketball.

- Amar'e Stoudemire

Myself Going Rather

I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.

- Amber Le Bon

Compliments Like Give

I'm a Libra. If someone compliments me, I'll say something nice to them. I like to give out compliments.

- Amber Rose

Man Company Known

A man is known by the company he organizes.

- Ambrose Bierce

Equal Left Pick

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

- Ambrose Bierce

Own Particularly Genealogy

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

- Ambrose Bierce

Big Always Commercial

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

- Amelia Warner

Line Movie First One

I'm the first one in line to go watch 'Spider-Man', but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.

- America Ferrera

Regret Career Yes

I don't regret any of my decisions. But yes, I feel that I should have planned my career well in Bollywood. But then again, I did not have any guidance. There was no one to tell me the dos and don'ts.

- Amruta Khanvilkar

Work Image Some

Some commercials can work against your image.

- Amruta Khanvilkar

Makeup Perfect Blank

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

- Amy Adams

Think Been Very

I would say that a lot of the characters I've been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in 'The Fighter,' not so much in 'The Master' - I think those are different.

- Amy Adams

Doing I Think TV

There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.

- Amy Chua

Want Feel Leaders

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

- Amy Cuddy

Breathing Having Reader

With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.

- Amy Gerstler

Through Like Given

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

- Amy Grant

Singing Big Finally

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

- Amy Grant

School Go Hebrew

I didn't go to Hebrew school.

- Amy Heckerling

Love Like Natural

I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff - not a natural gig-er.

- Amy Hoggart

Pain Think Some

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

- Amy Irving

Still Protecting Rooting

We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm.

- Amy Klobuchar

Doing I Think Time Frame

In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame in my dream, I think. I'd have these dreams that I am running and launching myself, and I look down and see that I have prosthetics. I have a lot of those, where I do great, amazing things with my prosthetics.

- Amy Purdy

Book Start Through

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

- Amy Ray

Happy Play Happy People

It's fun to play happy people.

- Amy Ryan

Play Back Feels

Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.

- Ana Ivanovic

Young Passionate Country

I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.

- Ana Ortiz

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