We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Robert Burton
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'd like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first 'Avengers' movie came out, Marvel and I - we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing. I'm not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I'm getting a little something out of it.
Jim Starlin
FirstNextTasteOutLittleBigger
Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.
Jim DeMint
PoliticsPurityWell
Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.
John Green
LoveFutureHopeTimeWritingEasy
I understand how hard it is to force yourself to be someone different. By the end of high school, I had taken to doing my math homework up against a concealed wall during lunch because I was tired of socializing.
Andrea Seigel
YourselfSchoolTiredLunchEnd
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
Max Lerner
YourselfHurtOthersAgainstAny
I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.
Robert Kiyosaki
IdeasPrettyBecauseIdeaDozen
One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.
Jean Piaget
ChildThingsExtremeAssuranceMost
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
Merrill Markoe
LiveYourselfMagicYouGoneJust
And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.
John Sexton
WorkLiveTodayMeCaliforniaHim
I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.
Sophie Thompson
WorkBeautyBookReadingPassionate
For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper.
Russell Crowe
ExperienceSkillMoviesAbilityMade
Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.
Louis Sullivan
ManWorldBackNeverSoundClean
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