I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.
Bozoma Saint John
Recitation: by Male by Female
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 never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.
John Bachman
FoodKindNeverSamePreyReturn
I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.
John Foster
VolunteerAsianLivedFilmFestival
There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.
Robert Mankoff
HumorFriendsYouSayGroupWay
For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.
John Taylor Gatto
TrainingEasyCreateWantFairCome
There is a difference between being bold and being rash.
Amy Klobuchar
BoldDifferenceBeingBetweenRash
There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that - throughout history, the lighter you are, that's how it's been. But it's not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look.
Jorja Smith
HistoryHatePeopleMeMomDoing
Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.
Phil Bredesen
FeetThinkWashingtonGroundWhose
I don't feel like I make sense in the world. I don't feel like I look right. I don't feel like I act right or do right. It's very frustrating to me that I just walk around with this all the time.
Perfume Genius
TimeWalkMeWorldFeelLook
We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.
Sherrod Brown
PlanTwoOverYearsSomethingMust
Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ.
Tina Brown
HappyBlackChurchEnoughBackDays
My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.
Nina Hoss
WorkInfluenceBackGoMoviesBig
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