Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Doris Lessing
Recitation: by Male by Female
Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different.
Jeremy Grantham
UniqueBubblesHousingThingsCommon
Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.
Jens Lekman
FunnyWeddingSomeoneEnoughYou
When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.
Andrew Solomon
FamilyChildrenMyselfGrowing Up
I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.
John Oates
MusicExperienceBeginningBornRock
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
John Lasseter
PositiveLeadershipLearningGood
When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
Robert Rodriguez
YouDoneWantRealAlwaysFilm
It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.
Michael Dirda
FatherSadTimeDayPeopleLate
There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in the way in which Truffaut's camera looks at his beloved city.
Amitava Kumar
GreatPoetryCityCameraLooksWay
I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.
Robert Cray
LifeTiredFlowersMeSingingTrees
Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
Mo Ibrahim
LawSocietyRule Of LawImportant
I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.
Jason Isbell
LivePeopleThinkSometimesImpress
The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.
Janine Turner
BetterHouseLandBarnRanchWorse
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