No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.
Jim Bunning
Recitation: by Male by Female
He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.
Joe Jackson
LiveBackStayComeHeVisit
Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
Andrew Scott
SimpleJobPeopleWantPretendGet
I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
Andrew Vachss
WorkFailureFaithGreatValueMe
Art is not only about angst.
John Corigliano
ArtOnlyAngstAbout
Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.
Andrea McLean
WorkFamilyHomeMeEatingRest
One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.
Robert Klein
GreatGeniusTraditionWhyStage
When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.
Angelina Jolie
WorkChangeResponsibilityPolitics
Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.
Stella Young
MoneyPeopleCharityDieYouPoor
This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.
Stephen Baker
YearYouGroundReallyStakePut
A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.
Tom Felton
YouNiceStarWouldPopPop Star
The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
BusinessWorldDirtyWhyOutside
In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.
Colm Toibin
BeautyArtTravelMeComfortBelief
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