Hollywood's just not funny.
Chris Rock
Recitation: by Male by Female
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.
Jenny Zhang
SuccessParentingPerfectionSucceed
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
Alton Brown
CommunicationHateBelievePowerful
I realized how far-reaching the effect of hip hop was when I walked by a jewelry store named Bling in a small, rural town in France. Hip hop has made a huge impact on urban culture. Yet many brands still don't speak to young people in a tone and manner that's representative of them.
Steve Stoute
CulturePeopleSmallJewelrySpeak
It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects.
Trevor Paglen
TimeSpacePeopleLookingLanguage
I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.
Robin Quivers
MoreEverythingRecoverySeemsFine
I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.
Ruth Pitter
GratefulSunYouKnowHonestWould
When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really writing scripts for that age.
Mary Badham
AgeWomanChildWritingIn-Between
I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.
Dr. Dre
PainToleranceHighMentalPhysical
One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.
Chris Parnell
YourselfStandIdiotYearActing
A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.
CollegeHouseWhiteBoyWhite House
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
Claude Pepper
FunnyAgeValueMeGreenYear
Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.
Phyllis Schlafly
MenTreatStopSayWantThey Say
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