A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
Douglas Sirk
Recitation: by Male by Female
Fashion is constantly changing from decade to decade, but I don't see a change in how many black faces I see on the runway, and it's something we should talk about because it's a problem.
Jessica White
ChangeFashionBlackProblemTalk
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
Robert Smithson
HistoryTimeMuseumsAbstractOwn
In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.
Matthew Stewart
BusinessSchoolBehaviorStrategy
They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.
Merle Haggard
MyselfWalkYourselfBalanceMeYou
Some people will talk about how Afghanistan has improved, but they're really just talking about the cities. In the countryside where the war has been fought, it's really not that much better than it was in 2001.
Anand Gopal
WarPeopleBetterTalkingWillTalk
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
Tom Clancy
GolfLearnDoingYouPlayWay
Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.
Michael Servetus
RainCloudsMiraclesWindsThings
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.
Michael Koryta
MindWorldTryingTransportFiction
We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.
Mitch McConnell
CountryToo MuchPersonSoundYears
Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.
Mo Rocca
TodayLookYesterdayShowEmbracing
You don't want to appear as if you are not a team player, but at the same time, you don't want to be taken advantage of.
Judy Smith
TimeTeamYouWantSameAdvantage
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.
Joshua Foer
MemoriesBestCreativePeopleThink
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