Hermione Granger is the mix of brain and heart that I've always wanted to be.
Melanie Scrofano
Recitation: by Male by Female
Like many in academia and in the development industry, I am among globalization's greatest beneficiaries - those who are able to sell our services in markets that are larger and richer than our parents could have dreamed of.
Angus Deaton
I AmParentsGlobalizationSellAble
There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they're in, remind them where they are. Some, you remind them about mechanics, and some, you have to bust their tail. You have to make them your friend and have them trust you.
Johnny Bench
FriendTrustYouThreeTellWhere
My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I'd be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student.
RM
PositiveMotherSonPathJobMan
It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.
Roisin Murphy
FunnyTrustI AmPeopleFindGo
There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.
Roy Barnes
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I think if I had to choose another profession, I'd like to be a judge because I'm very capable of determining what's right and what's not.
Marvin Gaye
ThinkJudgeChooseRightCapable
It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.
Michio Kaku
DoingYouDeskNiceCleanAnything
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.
Michael Koryta
TimePeopleEvilBookReadingStory
What having a child - and especially a daughter - has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.
Jason Isbell
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To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti
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No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.
Douglas Rushkoff
PeopleLookingThoughtDataChoose
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