Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan
Recitation: by Male by Female
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
Joan Didion
ReadingThinkYouSittingAimWill
I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?
Suki Waterhouse
ThinkActingWhyEveryoneBlurred
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.
Michelle Shocked
GoodMusicHeartMeControlLogic
I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.
Michael Moore
GoodStudentBoyNeverLittleBeen
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
BelieveNobodySalaryI BelieveSame
What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.
Jay Samit
BubbleUnderstandEconomyPsychology
They are desperate for surrogates to get behind Trump, and they can't find anyone who has actually had genuine success who is willing to stand behind him. That is because he is all smoke and mirrors. We know he doesn't have all the money he claims he has.
Chris Sacca
SuccessMoneyStandFindSmokeKnow
In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism: You can only be in this space if you transcend your blackness by showing us some green dollars. Even then, there is no guarantee that green will transcend your black skin.
Anthea Butler
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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
Penelope Lively
MemoryWayAlwaysBeenLinearWhich
When I came to Congress in 1993, the traditional idea that all politics stopped at the water's edge was alive and well. Americans had been unified for the previous four decades against the threat from the former Soviet Union and communism.
Pete Hoekstra
WaterPoliticsCommunismEdgeAlive
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
Shan Sa
AthensChinaPoetAncientWould
I like sort of esoteric and weird Twitter jokes. But I actually unfollow people if they make jokes about a celebrity's death within the first two minutes of that celebrity dying.
Timothy Simons
DeathPeopleWeirdCelebrityFirst
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