We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Simone Weil
Recitation: by Male by Female
It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.
Jimmy Rushing
YouDangerousGetFarIdentifyToo
I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.
Joe Henderson
TimeDayLoseLostRaceBreak
Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.
Andrew Clements
GoodTimeSimpleStepStoryThink
It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me.
Robin Zander
GoodMeEnoughFameRareAnybody
As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at the right time in the right place as prime minister. He made a series of very significant decisions, not one of which was popular or seemed justified at the time.
Ronen Bergman
TimeI AmWarRight PersonThink
I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality, if you will.
Mary Lou Jepsen
LoveRealityFeelYouWillAnything
Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.
Michael Specter
FakeInformationOutContextSeem
The Arab nations must be on our side. And if we catch them financing, if they funnel money to IS, that's when sanctions and other actions have to kick in.
Michael T. Flynn
MoneySideCatchKickMustActions
People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.
Chuck Hagel
GreatPeopleTryingCountryOutGet
As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic.
Peter Morgan
CharacterPeopleRoadChoicesSuits
Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.
Scott Aukerman
GreatTimeMyselfComedyFirst Time
I was playing good tennis up until 100.
Norman Lloyd
GoodTennisUpPlayingUntil
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