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I have lost my spark, I'm told, and should seek to rekindle it.  Respecting the messenger, I wonder if this is true.  I feel as if my spark endures, but having opened up to the world so bright, perhaps it no longer shines by comparison.  So, without a word, I slip back into seclusion to nurture my beautiful inner glow. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#inner-glow #richelle #richelle-goodrich #spark #beauty

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. ↗

— Steven Chu

#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#could #demand #diversification #followed #people

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#children #driving #how #learn #life

Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american people #common #common sense #country #dedicated

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. ↗

— Frank Stella

#chaos #fully #human #human personality #into

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#american people #defend #force #freedom #make

My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#even #far #hasn #life #logical

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#i #knows #particular #pulp #rumours

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character. ↗

— Joel Coen

#character #different #different thing #kinds #like