Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.
Chuck Berry
Recitation: by Male by Female
That's all you ever want - to do your job well enough that people on the other end are happy.
Megan Mullally
JobHappyPeopleEndEnoughYou
I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.
Michael Ignatieff
BusinessGreatPoliticsMistakeJust
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
Tristan Tzara
WorkArtJournalismProductAny
Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.
Robert Baden-Powell
CharacterChildrenQualityTraining
But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!
Rupert Holmes
FailureFirstCriticsEveryoneOnly
I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
Brendon Urie
MusicManGunOklahomaGetYour
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Pliny the Elder
NatureSeaManSailsMoreWinds
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.
Phil Knight
SportsBestDayWorldMeeting
To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.
Seamus Heaney
FaceYouMustBangLikeEncounter
I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.
Marilyn Manson
BelieveLearnSomeoneI BelieveLike
Johnson Publishing has been built on filling a need for African-Americans. This is what's happening with E Style. There was nothing that addressed the specific needs of African-American women.
Linda Johnson Rice
WomenStyleNothingNeedBeenNeeds
I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.
Kurt Vile
WritingThinkingYouPersonalWrite
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