I was a skinny 17-year-old.
Roger Rees
Recitation: by Male by Female
Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.
Andrew Rosenthal
CongressPatriotActApprovalEven
My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.
Maysoon Zayid
FunnyFriendNew YorkNegativeMedia
We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.
John Lewis
WorkLiveCourageWalkEffortWind
These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.
John Hume
ChildPerceptionStandKnowOut
It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
John Wanamaker
WorkEasyYouUpShowSomebody
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
Ronald Blythe
AppreciateLivingOldNovelThing
For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is.
Jose Antonio Vargas
AgeI AmMeSomeoneBackPerson
Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
Douglas Sirk
ProudAmericaLateWhyRealFound
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Archibald MacLeish
LifeWisdomFootballWordsPoetry
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Arnold Bennett
GreatWhereBeingAdvantageRut
My dad, in the best way possible - not in an intimidating way, but with the physically intimidating qualities that every father has - can truly be scary. The only time you saw that side of him, the raw side of him, would be in a moment when you truly were the one that screwed up.
Wyatt Russell
FatherTimeMomentBestYouWay
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
Peter Singer
ManMoonLibraryHumanDigitalAble
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