Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Recitation: by Male by Female
There are so many people that want to tell stories. I think that the issue is how hard it is to get your foot in the door to tell your stories.
Jenny Han
PeopleDoorThinkWantHardTell
I don't think my parents know what I do.
John Malkovich
ParentsThinkKnow
Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
Matt Taibbi
TogetherFinancialGlueIndustry
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
John Searles
QualityGoalWriteRealBooksPlot
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill
StrengthCharacterCourageSociety
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.
John Updike
MotherMyselfThoughtTryingKnow
The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.
John Ridley
MarriageJobHypocrisyDoneOwn
For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.
BeautifulSomethingEventHappens
For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon.
Amanda Foreman
WarWinningIndependenceAmerica
If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.
Steven Pinker
LifePeopleViewLiteratureYouSee
We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.
Tre Cool
ThinkWorthTakeCutThanJam
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg
VictoryRevolutionRockWillFinal
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