"We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall."
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"The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us."
"From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society."
"On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones."
"I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me."
"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."
"The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it."
"The key to education is the experience of beauty."
"At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours."
"I hold the Key to my Own Success! (You do too!)"
"The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw."
"It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill and that there was a way to exploit it. And it was a key to playing great role Frankie Valli in such a huge show."
"And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away."
"I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school."
"The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust."
"Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace."
"The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy."
"If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key - there's no door at all - then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?"
"I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal."
"The used key is always bright."