Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Recitation: by Male by Female
There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
Jesse Jackson
PowerForwardCynicismThrust
So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.
Jen Sincero
LivePeopleReachMediocritySilent
An old theory holds that air conditioning ruined Congress. Members no longer had to flee the Washington heat to spend the summer back home. The long vacation forced them to bond with their constituents.
John Dickerson
HomeVacationBondLongBackSummer
I love comedy. There's just something so great about making people laugh. And for me, too, whenever I laugh, it just makes me feel so much better just watching a great comedy.
Stefanie Scott
LoveGreatPeopleMeBetterLaugh
Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.
Roger Ebert
EveryoneLockedNeedsCategory
When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.
Rory Kinnear
LifeSchoolMy LifeComedyDoing
I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.
Mike Wallace
FactsDoubtDramaBecomeMoreUp
When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.
Jose Carreras
MusicPeopleThinkWantSingOnly
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.
Jonathan Coleman
PeopleThoughtsActionImpossible
I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.
Johnny Weir
PassionFunHave FunEnjoyWantWho
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
Donna Shalala
KnowledgePeopleCollegeAmericanGo
In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.
Christopher Buckley
LifeGoodNewsSpinningGood Idea
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