"I ignore [Barack Obama] like I ignore [Louis ] Farrakhan."

-- Malaak Shabazz

“Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.”
“One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I've been using it for 5 years and that's all I put on when I leave the house. It looks so natural I just put a little bit on my cheeks to give them some color.”

Source : "Model Minute: Alessandra Ambrosio Loves Melissa's Shoes". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2012.
“Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.”

Source : Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.81
“Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.”
“I think living in Baltimore and being a part of the community and trying to be part of as many communities as possible within the city, the best thing that anyone can do in Baltimore is just to be a part of it and contribute to it and to not see it as...A lot of people from outside the city see this city for its blight and I feel like people who live within the city do the opposite and see this city for what defines it as, in my mind, the most beautiful place to live.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.”

Source : Francine Rivers (2013). “Redeeming Love”, p.442, Lion Fiction
“But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.”

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