I've always set out to embrace all that I am.
Chris Ofili
Recitation: by Male by Female
You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially.
Meryl Streep
WorkLovePeopleFalling In LoveYou
I've always been the rock of my family.
Alyssa Edwards
FamilyRockAlwaysBeen
Perhaps there should be a box on the census form that says, 'I'm a criminal.' Everyone who has ever committed a crime would be required to check it. If everyone were forced to acknowledge their own criminality, maybe we, as a nation, would second-guess our apparent zeal for denying full citizenship to those branded felons.
Michelle Alexander
CitizenshipCrimeNationBoxOwn
You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.
Michael Shannon
LifePeopleCrazyWorldThinking
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere
FearWiseSocietyPersonBored
Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.'
Joseph Stiglitz
PoliticsEconomicsBetterSeeing
I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note session at Imagine for a TV show I wrote that they were producing, and they happened to say, 'You'd be great as Crosby, do you want to do this show we're doing, 'Parenthood?'
Dax Shepard
GreatDoingYouSayWantActor
People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.
Conor Oberst
ChangePeopleThinkDoingYouWant
Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?
William H. Wharton
NaturePerseveranceConfidentLand
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
Peter Orszag
PersonalityMomWarmDifferentSort
There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.
Peter Dinklage
NightSaturdayDoingCelebrityBeing
I've never been a materialist; I've never been somebody who believes in only what we can see and measure. I continue to be a student of religious philosophy, and I continue to take those ideas very seriously.
Scott Derrickson
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