We pass through this world but once.
Stephen Jay Gould
Recitation: by Male by Female
I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.
Anna Kendrick
LoveFeelUncomfortableYouFall
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
John Selden
PainNothingPleasureElse
The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms.
Sonny Perdue
SimpleFactsTeachersNeedStandards
Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.
Ron Fournier
GreatnessPeopleMeYouMoviesJust
Documentaries are a form of journalism.
Michael Moore
JournalismFormDocumentaries
I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.
Julia Barr
GirlFoodMeHusbandKnowAnything
Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling at these schools where they end up with a mountain of debt and a worthless degree.
Dick Durbin
DayMountainCollegeEndEvery Day
The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.
Deborah Tannen
CommunicationWomenWomanWordsMan
Losing has nothing to do with geography.
Chuck Noll
LosingGeographyNothing
My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.
Brian Tyree Henry
BornCopyBoyLittleThingsOff
I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to help pick you up out of it, especially if you're going through the hurting part.
Ashton Shepherd
GoodPeopleSongHelpYouSometimes
I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.
Suzy Menkes
TimeOpinionStandYouPersonTrue
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