I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.
Jenny Lewis
MusicJoyListeningThinkMusicians
I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.
Melissa Mathison
ChildrenChildhoodWritingBusyWant
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
Ameen Rihani
SpiritualStrongWeakRuleOppressed
It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.
Stephen Moyer
FunnyStartThinkThoughtYouGoing
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
Shirin Ebadi
NothingHumanRightsHuman Rights
I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.
Michelle Williams
ParentsIndependenceDesireKnow
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
Diana Ross
MyselfPastLookingLookAheadTry
Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in order. I write bits and pieces and sort of glue them.
Diana Gabaldon
GoodPeopleThoughtNowWriteGlue
Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.
Clay Shirky
GoodActionBookSayingYouClub
I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.
Anthony Warlow
TimePersonAwardsReasonOverGot
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
Auguste Rodin
NothingRediscoverInvent
I wouldn't want to even try to begin to describe our customer, as I think she likes a certain amount of anonymity. I try to offer clothes that allow that. I myself do not like being defined so readily, so I imagine that she is similar?
Phoebe Philo
MyselfThinkCustomerClothesWant
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