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There is a lot of speculation about what women are attracted to, and there are a lot of misconceptions.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
The Bible is filled with stories about angels, but many of us have had our view of angels confused by popular misconceptions about them, the principal of which is that angels do not actually exist anymore than fairies do, or wood nymphs or water sprites. But they do exist, and the Bible attests to their existence innumerable times.
- Eric Metaxas
Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.
- Muhammad Ali
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
- Bo Jackson
Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.
- Moby
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain
It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure just ain't so.
- Mark Twain
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
- Robert Byrne
Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. We have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.
- Alain de Botton
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
- Billie Jean King