I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.
Joan Cusack
Recitation: by Male by Female
I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.
Ann-Margret
GirlParentsPerfectMannersNever
If something's really selfless, then there's really no value in it for you... there's only value in it for the world.
Jeff Baena
ValueWorldSelflessYouSomething
Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.
Sister Souljah
BeautifulMomentWomanPeopleSister
Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
Simon Schama
LifeLiveCountryOwnDifferent
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Tom Clancy
PeopleWinBattleFightingFinding
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
Marvin Minsky
VisionMoving OnMovingBetterStage
The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us to face the reality that American-style punishment has been chosen.
Michelle Alexander
GreatJusticeGiftFaceReality
The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.
Donny Osmond
HappinessRideMeMindsetEnjoy
When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'
Artie Lange
WinterTimeChildPeopleGrowing Up
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
William Warburton
TruthTestReasonRidicule
For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.
Sylvia Plath
WomenGodTimeMeLipsSunday
I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.
Peter Thiel
LivePeopleBelieveThinkI Believe
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