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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
Life is difficult, and if you sit around waiting for fun to show up, you'll find yourself going without it more often than not.
I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?
I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.
I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
Life is short, and time just flies by, so I love those moments when we're all sitting around the table together laughing and joking.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.
The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
If you're not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It's going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day.
Fashion is not superficial; it is a dynamic tool to transform oneself, and it can be used to command the attention of those around you.
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
The testosterone levels of a normal male can be anywhere from 300-1,000 nanograms. For the average female, it's 10-70. Mine is around 7.
I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
I think a scarf is the most versatile item. On a plane, it's good to wrap around when you're cold or rest your head on it. I love scarves.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
Lots of headless chickens running around - artists with 14 million followers on Twitter, some making millions, none making cultural impact.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
I think I'm curious by nature because I always want to learn, and I think you can learn from so many things around you on an everyday basis.
There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.
I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.
No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.
I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.