Solitude begets whimsies.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Recitation: by Male by Female
It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary objects of expenditure or the enforcement of an exact and judicious economy in the public disbursements.
John C. Calhoun
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You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.
Merry Clayton
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Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
Amity Shlaes
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There was this mischaracterization that I ran for leadership to be the guy to get conservatives to vote for leadership. I said I would be a conservative voice at the leadership table.
Steve Scalise
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Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.
Tracy Morgan
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There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.
Ron Eglash
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I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.
Roz Chast
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American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.
Michael Mandelbaum
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The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
Luis von Ahn
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I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.
Jason Priestley
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Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.
Jon Gruden
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My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.
Dominic Monaghan
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