Music was the first art form I ever had.
Robert David Hall
Recitation: by Male by Female
The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.
Jodi Kantor
PeopleMeJournalismProfoundBeen
One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.
Joan Didion
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When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.
Meghan Daum
ThoughtYoungTalkDegreeWithout
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
Matthew Simpson
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In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college's top essay and poetry prizes, to write about 'the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.'
Tom Reiss
WinterAgePoetryCollegePresent
I like building.
Ross Levinsohn
BuildingLike
The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
Bobby Fischer
FuturePeopleAmericanBackWhite
What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
Bob Kane
MyselfBelieveTalkingPersonCannot
Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.
Anthony Goldbloom
BusinessThinkYearSizeTwiceBig
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.
Peter Bart
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I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.
Penn Jillette
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We have not been asking the serious questions about the future of our species, questions sci-fi regularly explores by showing us the best and worst of what could be.
Nick Sagan
FutureBestQuestionsSeriousWorst
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