You could call my piano my trademark, or one of my trademarks.
Aretha Franklin
Recitation: by Male by Female
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.
Jim Crace
LifeWritingRetireRetiring
You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him.
John McEnroe
BasketballBelieveYouLookWill
There was a model in my high school. She was like, 'You're so pretty. You should come see my agency'.
Anna Ewers
SchoolHigh SchoolYouSheSeeHigh
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
Robert E. Sherwood
FoolManLiarPlayDamnPassionate
I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism.
Robin DiAngelo
LifeRacismMeMy LifeWhiteGroup
I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.
Mike Birbiglia
PeopleOutdoorsYouMeanPerforming
In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.
Don Yaeger
LeadershipTeamConsistencyAction
I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by material wealth - they have nothing to do with that.
Debra Granik
CultureWealthNothingSelf-Esteem
The best and most important step of my career was when I moved here - and Louis van Gaal brought me from Madrid to Bayern. It was the best move of my career, and it's thanks to him.
Arjen Robben
BestStepMeCareerImportantHim
A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
Antonin Scalia
GoodManGood ManEnemiesWhoMade
After 9/11, I had just become an American citizen, and I remember sitting in front of my TV set watching the news of the attacks, in tears. I remember thinking to myself, 'Nothing is ever going to be the same in this country for people who look like me.'
Pramila Jayapal
MyselfPeopleMeTearsThinking
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.'
Scott Anderson
GreatPeaceWarEffortWorldMiddle
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