I refuse to lie to children.
Maurice Sendak
Recitation: by Male by Female
Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
John Ortberg
LeadershipSpiritualWillNeedOut
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
Michael Ignatieff
PoliticsPoliticalVillageAuthority
I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm not writing, the well is just filling up. I'm going to be patient with this.'
Rodney Crowell
MyselfWritingRealityEarlySaid
To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.
Ry Cooder
MusicMeImportantEssenceMost
Leave it to an Obama supporter to bring up Iraq in the middle of a conversation about the swine flu pandemic.
Mike Gallagher
ConversationFluLeaveBringMiddle
For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.
Judd Apatow
MeTryingKnowDoneAudienceUntil
I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.
Dolly Parton
GoodPeopleCareLongTrySee
Sometimes, you do need different leaders for different stages of the company.
Cheryl Yeoh
YouSometimesNeedCompanyDifferent
Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.
Clark Blaise
Old FriendsFriendsHoodEarlyOld
I don't mean it egotistically, but I've been given the chance to be in front of people and sing, and I feel that it's part of my job and my duty - especially where I'm from - to speak the language of the people I'm around and speak for them.
Brian Fallon
JobPeopleChanceSpeakLanguage
I was the laziest person around. Suddenly, one day, I decided to become an actor. Thank God for that whimsical decision: else, by now, I'd have been a 140-kilo, butter-chicken-bingeing hotelier.
Prabhas
GodDecisionDayThank GodPerson
We saw firsthand how a collapsed bridge in Skagit County impacted our local economy, which is why we must fix our infrastructure now before it's more expensive to maintain in the future.
Suzan DelBene
FutureBridgeNowWhyFixEconomy
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