The consequence of shutting down the government was not healthy.
Jeff Fortenberry
Recitation: by Male by Female
There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.
Michael Bay
LovePetRobotAlwaysLittleGrumpy
School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
Amber Heard
TimeSchoolCollegeMeAwardGrades
When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.
Sterling K. Brown
SchoolMeHigh SchoolBlackFriends
I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.
Robert Carlyle
YouTelevisionNowNothingBall
I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with 'new' in it is just begging for trouble, of course.
Tom Wolfe
NamePhilosophyJournalismPartyNew
As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.
Robbie Williams
ThinkI CanPayBecausePerforming
I almost can't even put to words how happy I am that I got married.
Mike Birbiglia
WordsI AmHappyGotAlmostEven
Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.
Jason Reynolds
CommunityMeLanguageEleganceWay
To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
Jon Oringer
TimeInterestingLongHumanAlways
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
PoetryWaitingRoseDownCanyon
There was absolutely no pressure from the family. It was my choice to pursue a career in music. I always wanted to do music, which has been close to heart. In fact, I was dead sure about it.
Armaan Malik
FamilyMusicHeartPressureChoice
Pool swimmers are very slim, and they're stronger. Marathon swimmers have to train an awful lot, and they end up losing a bit of muscle mass. So we need to have a bit more fat, though that's not the case with me. Many swimmers have a little bit of extra fat though, so that they can deal with the cold and get through what is an exhausting event.
Poliana Okimoto
LosingMeColdEndFatStronger
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