I have set out to change the language of the international system.
Clare Short
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'm definitely trying to make songs that people can sing along to and remember. If you can recognize a chorus and leave with it in your head, it's usually a good sign. But then with the verses, I can get a little more free form. I don't really like to copy and paste things.
Jillian Hervey
GoodPeopleFreeRememberYouI Can
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
John B. S. Haldane
SuccessFailureEnvironmentKnowTwo
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
John Boyne
AgeFocusBookFirstWholeWriter
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
Robert Sheckley
GreatMeQuestionsPhilosophyDeal
All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early Vegas aesthetic is Baghdad, which is also the irony. It's 'Aladdin,' the sands, 'One Thousand and One Nights.'
Robert Lepage
AestheticVegasEarlyParisIrony
The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.
John Sulston
ScienceIdeasResearchNobodyMore
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.
Steven Pinker
FamilyNatureCommunismValuesMoral
My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
Slash
Rock And RollGuitarKnowRockLead
An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?
Snoop Dogg
ManSayingFriendsYouWallYoung
Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.
Rob Lowe
BestDivorceKidViceThingsEven
When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.
Mitch Leigh
WriteAnythingLeftPreparedYale
I had liver disease. I'm completely cured now, but I thought about if I died from liver cancer, what my life would look like. I followed this wish of being a fiction writer.
Min Jin Lee
LifeThoughtMy LifeWishLookNow
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