Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.
Steven Pinker
Recitation: by Male by Female
Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard for black people to have a fair share.
Jesse White
KingPeopleToughBlackSegregation
I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
Andrew Bird
GoodFunMusiciansYouDoneCry
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.
John Mayer
LifeLearningMomentI AmPeople
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand
MarriageWifeThoughtFeelYouShe
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.
Robert Fortune
DoorsStopWindowsKindNothingUp
I'm not a great poetry fan.
Rupert Everett
GreatPoetryFan
I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.
Jason Alexander
CharacterPeopleMeLookMindsGuy
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
Janice Dickinson
SadFashionPrisonLonelyYouSee
I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.
David Shields
MyselfExperienceMeStandTrying
Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.
Colbie Caillat
LoveWritingGuitarHotelGoRoom
I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.
Aubrey Plaza
GoodTimeMeBrainDoingEnough
There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise.
Tyler Winklevoss
ThinkDifferenceBeingAbsurdMuslim
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