I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
Mel Brooks
Recitation: by Male by Female
Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
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I'm so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a fairly small set of scientific questions all related to the psychology of achievement, and I'll never get bored of those questions. That's something I couldn't say to you when I was 22 or 25 or probably even 31.
Angela Duckworth
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I get along with people very easily.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
PeopleAlongGetVeryEasily
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Alvin Toffler
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To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
Robert Baden-Powell
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One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.
Molly Antopol
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I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.
Jose Angel Gurria
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I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.
Jonathan Ames
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The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Dick Thornburgh
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I had eel at a sushi bar once; it's disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, 'That looks safe.' It wasn't.
Chris Evans
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The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
Clara Zetkin
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I wanted to put a really good kids' racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.
Bradley Wiggins
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