Tom Wolfe Quotes

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.

Tom Wolfe

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StyleWritingYouBadWhyNewspaper

People might just decide, 'Yeah, I'll diversify my portfolio. I'll live in a rental.' That is a very sensible thing for many people to do.

Robert J. Shiller

LivePeopleDecidePortfolioJust

In a perfect world, people don't have to move to another country to get a higher wage. Ultimately, they need only be able to participate in producing output that is sold internationally.

Robert J. Shiller

PeopleWorldPerfectCountryNeed

I definitely agree about the future of youth football being flag. There's just more and more evidence that the youth brain is particularly susceptible to the injury - thin necks, big heads. They're not as coordinated; they're not as skillful. For many reasons, I think the wave of the future is flag football for youth.

Ann McKee

FutureFootballYouthBrainThink

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am.

Sophie Okonedo

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More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

Simon Mainwaring

PositiveWorkGoodResponsibility

Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Robert Baden-Powell

CharacterChildrenQualityTraining

I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7.

Rob Gronkowski

SportsFootballBaseballBusyPlay

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.

Mary Kom

FamilyBoxingTellStartedAthletics

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

Mira Nair

I AmIndependentMy OwnFirstAlways

The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.

Donna Mills

TimeMeImportantNowActorNuts

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Chief Joseph

MotherEqualityPeopleEarthEqual

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

Connie Willis

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