What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.
Jim Valvano
Recitation: by Male by Female
Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.
Joaquin Phoenix
MusicCareerIntentionPossibleYeah
Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem
SituationCountryUsedAdjustment
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Maya Angelou
PoetryRiverSometimesWorstRight
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
Anna C. Brackett
GreatStruggleManWorldRest
In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that point, it would obviously be indecipherable for us, but for the people of that time, it was just normal talking.
Jeff Baena
AgeTimePeopleMindTalkingYou
There is no quick easy way to the body you want... commit yourself now to your workout and get started.
Tracy Anderson
YourselfEasyYouBodyWantWay
We live in a culture where people are constantly telling us how to get what we want, and within that message is, 'You need to be something other than you are.'
Tracee Ellis Ross
LiveCulturePeopleYouWantNeed
I've been living a lie all my life.
Michael Reagan
LifeLieMy LifeLivingBeen
People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.
Michael Symon
PeopleThinkYouComplainSeeTV
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.
Lisa See
BeautyWomenFeetYouVillageChina
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Dodie Smith
BeautyTimeDeathHorrorOutTakes
My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.
Penny Marshall
MotherCharacterSheNutsPretty
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