I'm sort of a gypsy at heart and don't like to stay in one place too long.
Ming-Na Wen
Recitation: by Male by Female
I was forged in the crucible of want, and because of that, I consider myself far more privileged than people who had everything.
Jimmy Savile
MyselfPeopleWantMoreEverything
I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it.
Robert M. Gates
PeopleMeThinkPersonReasonCIA
It is best to live however one can be.
Sophocles
LiveBestHowever
The question people ask me all the time is, 'How was it playing a gay character? How was it pretending to love a man?' And I don't mean to be abrasive, but that's just the stupidest question in the world to me. To assume there is a difference is ignorance. You're born a certain way. I was born loving women. I could have been born loving men.
Trevante Rhodes
LoveWomenCharacterTimeIgnorance
Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.
Tom Jenkinson
KnowledgeIdeasFirstProgramming
Out of 3,500 students in my high school, I was the only openly professing Christian kid. Obviously there were challenges. 'Only old and stupid people believe.'
Miroslav Volf
SchoolPeopleChallengesStupidHigh
A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.
Joseph P. Bradley
NatureArtManHappySocietyHim
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Desmond Tutu
PeacePeopleAttentionYouLookSay
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
Chinua Achebe
GovernmentEndProblemYouBadKnow
Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.
Claude Shannon
ValueNegativeInformationReciprocal
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
Ansel Adams
LiveI AmPeopleMeLookingWalking
RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.
Annalee Newitz
TodayCulturePeopleInternetKnow
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