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“My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.” – Lady Gaga “Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.” – Lady Gaga “So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.” – Lady Gaga “I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.” – Lady Gaga “In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'” – Lady Gaga “I wanted to...

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.” – Khalil Gibran “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” – Khalil Gibran “Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.” – Khalil Gibran “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” – Khalil Gibran “But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” – Khalil Gibran “Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.” – Khalil Gibran “Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.” – Khalil Gibran “Do...

 Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen ha...

 The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of ...

 A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and th...

 In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. Anger is a good motivator. Beauty can come in strange forms. Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving. I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision. Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us. Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it. I don't design down to a price. I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic. When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything. I don't particularly follow the ...