Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.
Tony Dorsett
Recitation: by Male by Female
I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
Jerry Pournelle
ScienceAmericaEarlyNobodyFirst
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.
Meles Zenawi
PeopleMeSurpriseInterestingYou
Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
Michael Jeffery
EveningFeelingNewsResignation
The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.
Stephen Kinzer
WorkAmericanOutUnitedCutTrade
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
Sugar Ray Leonard
LifePeopleSkillUpMineJust
When you recruit good candidates and you have a good message and you have energy and organization and partnership, you always have a fighting chance.
Tom Perez
GoodOrganizationChanceEnergyYou
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
Robert Evans
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If there's a skateboard in front of me, I can't help myself. I like to jump on.
Luke Rockhold
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I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.
Louis Sachar
PeopleBridgeThinkWeekBadPlay
In college, when a girlfriend asks you to watch a film in black and white, you do it. That's when I discovered a lot of films. I was really obsessed with Bergman, the whole world he creates. One that I always quote a lot is 'Autumn Sonata.' When you see women go through issues with their mom, you realize how right and poignant Bergman was.
Jonás Cuarón
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In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.
Dickey Betts
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I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that's important to me as an artist and a person.
Shawn Mendes
MusicI AmMeThinkThinkingArtist
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