If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
Joe E. Lewis
Recitation: by Male by Female
The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for women in their personal lives as well, especially as they become more opinionated and outspoken.
Jessica Valenti
WomenPowerWorldBehaviorResult
'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.
Amy Bloom
WorkPeopleThoughtsMeant To Be
You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.
Stephen Graham Jones
MoneyQualityWritingTryingYou
The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us.
Rod Rosenstein
WorkFreeConquerInternetAmerica
Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.
Jules Verne
ManMoonInfluenceExerciseProve
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
Judith Butler
TogetherWhateverPointStayNetwork
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.
Chuck Palahniuk
PeopleStoryYouWayMoreCome
At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
Annette Funicello
BeginningAmericanOnlyPercentHad
I like to smile when I am playing because I try to show people that I am enjoying myself, and I think Ronaldinho did the same.
Philippe Coutinho
SmileMyselfI AmPeopleThinkTry
If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Scott Adams
SuccessLuckControlGameBetter
The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.
Tom Bissell
WorkPeopleGameStoryBusyYou
Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.
Tito Vilanova
ChangeGoodConfidenceBestFootball
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