I think young writers ought to be heretical.
Derek Walcott
Recitation: by Male by Female
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.
Jill Lepore
RelationshipSecretsPrivacyNew
'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.
Jennifer Egan
WorkCultureNew YorkMeThinkLook
I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
Robert Plant
AchievementPeopleNightKnowOut
By the nature of the sport and the danger we face daily, we are very close knit. Some of us have spent most of our lives together. To give you an example, having spent two decades sitting next to Richard Johnson and seeing him virtually every day, I have probably spent more time with him than I have my family, and he the same.
Tony McCoy
FamilyNatureDailyTimeDayFace
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
Robert Bork
LawDemocracyJudgeMoralityMoral
Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.
Jason Reynolds
CommunityMeLanguageEleganceWay
My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'
Christian Slater
LifeMotherLiveMeHurtThree
Punk rock and straight edge will always be married together. As far as me integrating that with wrestling, I learned a lot from punk rock.
CM Punk
TogetherMeEdgeRockWillPunk
My bed is actually two king beds put together.
Cindy Margolis
TogetherKingBedTwoActuallyBeds
Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
Boris Yeltsin
NatureCharacterChallengesNew
Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
Bruce Springsteen
FriendsGayStereotypesRidiculous
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
Piers Anthony
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