If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
Douglas Coupland
Recitation: by Male by Female
We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next 'Batman' movie?
Joel Schumacher
TimeAmericaWorryRememberYouGet
My parents were part of a crowd that was attached to all the different navies stationed in Malta. When they would have parties in each other's houses, I would get taken along, and that's where I heard all this great music. I didn't distinguish particular styles; it was all music to me.
Robert Palmer
MusicGreatParentsMeDifferent
If you are going to call out your teammates, you have to call out yourself, too. You can't just separate yourself from the rest, because if you are going to get 90 percent of the credit when you win, you have to be willing to take 90 percent of the blame when you lose.
Jeff Van Gundy
YourselfBlameWinRestCreditLose
In a second-class courtesan house, the courtship was much briefer. It could even be one night; usually it went on a little bit longer. But as the years went by, that period of courtship was shorter and shorter.
Amy Tan
NightHouseYearsLittleEvenMuch
Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.
Stephen Hadley
GoodFreedomDemocracyRevolution
I actually wasn't really the class clown growing up. The class clown was always the mean guy who walked up and was like, 'You're fat. You're gay. I'm outta here!' I was always more kind of awkward and introspective.
Mike Birbiglia
Growing UpFatYouGayGrowingKind
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.
Louis A. Johnson
ResponsibilityProblemsAuthority
I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.
Lolo Jones
CollegeOutContractLikeFactMost
At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.
Cornelia Parker
JoyAnxietyYouKnowOppositeBeen
I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.
Bob Gunton
I AmMeGunWalkingTryingFind
As a co-founder of the Defend Social Security Caucus in the Senate, you can count on me to continue to stand up for our seniors and fight any back door efforts to cut benefits.
Sheldon Whitehouse
FightMeDoorStand UpStandYou
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
Timothy Zahn
ChangeMeLuckSmilingSecurityShe
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