Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Recitation: by Male by Female
In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.
Jet Li
FamilyFoodWorldFeelYouFar Away
I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.
John Hench
TechnologyTimeRideMountainSpace
The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
Merle Travis
HappyPersonSongsSaddestWritten
I know God is watching out for me, and he's saying, 'OK, son, watch your step now. You can be in these places, but just be careful. Keep your guard up.'
Sonny Sandoval
SonGodStepMeSayingYou
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
Mason Cooley
PowerfulTwentyHelplessnessVolumes
I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.
Mike Lowry
TimeWorldFeelEnoughNewBig
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
Michelle Shocked
FaithSoulDevilYouFailSell
It took a catastrophe of socialized medicine to wake a lot of people up because it affects every single person in America, either directly or indirectly. That's when you get people's attention - when it directly affects them.
Monica Crowley
PeopleMedicineAmericaAttentionUp
I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.
Miroslav Vitous
GoodJazzYearsEuropePrettyHere
When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.
Missy Elliott
BrainYouCreateCreatingTryNeed
Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?
Jason Blum
MoneyPeopleEgoThinkYouKnow
My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
StrongBooksSpineWritten
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