I was in the video for Cyndi Lauper's 'Sally's Pigeons' when I first started acting.
Julia Stiles
Recitation: by Male by Female
When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.
Jodi Picoult
YourselfYouKnowWillNeverFix
Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace. Yet Americans' various governments collect taxes and, in return, provide services without which they could not easily live their lives.
Angus Deaton
LiveFeelMoreTaxesPoliticians
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.
Sonia Sotomayor
KnowledgeLimitsUnderstandingYear
I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.
Steve Yzerman
ThinkMemorableHardImpressionLeft
People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch two seasons back-to-back of a show. They are invested in the person within that arc or the dynamics of those people - the relationships - and it doesn't matter to them if they're watching it on an iPhone or a cinema screen.
Robin Wright
PeopleWeekendSeasonsCinemaPerson
You earn the title of favourite when you win. It's not when people say you're a favourite because of past achievements; it's when you show it on the pitch.
Julen Lopetegui
PastPeopleWinYouSayEarn
As the state's chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.
Jason Kander
OpportunityJobVoteElectionsSure
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
Joseph Barbera
RideBadChoiceDentistOutGoing
The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility, the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
Dennis Prager
RespectResponsibilityMindIdeas
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
Anne Enright
WomenOldLovelyI Was RaisedWhere
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.
Susan Powter
WomenReligionEarthRaceHuman
Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.
Sheila Heti
IdeasPlayWantEscapeRoleOnly
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