Day by day, I'm kind of a bore.
Mary Roach
Recitation: by Male by Female
Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
Joanne Liu
DeathEmpathyLosingPeopleUsed
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.
Stephen Daldry
LifeSchoolMeRestTryingLucky
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.
Roberto Unger
GreatFireWorldHumanityBorn
By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the opportunity of using these material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that gods came down at that time into the Greek temples in order to be among human beings on the physical plane.
Rudolf Steiner
OpportunityTimeSpiritualSpaceSay
I love listening to audiobooks - I always lose my glasses, but if I have an audiobook, I don't need them.
Michaela Coel
LoveGlassesListeningLoseNeed
I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.
Jason Pierre-Paul
GameEndBallPlayingKeepGoing
I can wrap my legs around my neck.
Janice Dickinson
I CanLegsNeckWrapAround
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.
Donatella Versace
MotherPeopleMeFashionSaySewing
A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.
Dean Karnazes
LiveSingleOffGridLotLives
I think, in all this race and competition, we actors forget how to have fun.
Ali Fazal
CompetitionFunHave FunThinkRace
I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read.
Alice McDermott
LoveMusicLanguageCircumstances
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
Phyllis McGinley
KnowledgeMenManImportantGetHow
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