I'm sure Bonnie Blair and Dan Jansen think I'm garbage.
Mary Docter
Recitation: by Male by Female
I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.
Jess Walter
TimeMyselfYourselfMeThink
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
Amy Tan
FamilyThinkEncouragementFiction
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
Steve Earle
LearningVoiceFindCraftOwnUs
I will say that there are genuine and serious concerns about what Hillary Clinton did before the Benghazi attacks, during them, and after them. I think her extremely careless handling of classified information, to use FBI Director Jim Comey's term, disqualifies her from being president.
Tom Cotton
ThinkInformationSeriousGenuine
I'm not doing my work for constant success.
Rod Taylor
WorkSuccessDoingConstant
When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.
Ron Chernow
BlindRiseOverUpGoingMarket
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
Ruben Blades
MotherSingingRememberSheRadio
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
Martin Van Creveld
StrongFightingIdiotYouWeakHim
Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.
Judy Biggert
WomenAgeRetirementReachSecurity
I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.
Jonathan LaPaglia
ArtSchoolRestHigh SchoolThink
The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you.
Jon Oringer
BusinessGreatPeopleCareProblem
I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
Bob Newhart
TodayHumorThinkKnowKindLittle
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