My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
Boz Scaggs
Recitation: by Male by Female
In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
Jim Mattis
LeadershipHomeAgeServiceTrust
Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.
Michael B. Jordan
FootballAthleteNeverCompetitor
I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.
Amy Sherald
WorkWomanPeopleSurviveBlackWay
I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?
Stuart Rose
GoodRoadsI AmFreeBelieveWealth
My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.
Mary H.K. Choi
WordsSweetWriterSpotEssayist
I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head.
Mickey Rooney
HatMeMouthDressedHandMustache
Athletes can not look the same and be great in their individual sport. The example I like to use is Gabby Douglas. She could not flip in the air if she was built like me, but then Gabby Douglas couldn't throw the shot put. I was built like this because I was made to throw the shot put.
Michelle Carter
GreatMeLookSheAirIndividual
When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.
Didier Drogba
DayParentsEvery DayFar AwayBeen
I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.
Clinton Sparks
GoodGreatTimeGood ThingsWorld
I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
Clive Owen
MyselfHeroActionThinkAction Hero
My dad went to law school at night while working full-time. He has an unparalleled work ethic and has passed down to me his passion for playing and watching sports. I love him dearly.
Brett Kavanaugh
WorkLovePassionSportsSchoolLaw
There is a secret hippie within me.
Phillip Lim
MeSecretHippieWithin
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