President Bush bestowed the Congressional Medal on myself.
Aretha Franklin
Recitation: by Male by Female
My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
John Malkovich
FatherMeInfluenceStrong
I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'
Anjelah Johnson
EducationFreeWantClassBecomeUp
You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.'
John Williams
LiveThinkingYouWillNeverWrite
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
Steven Spielberg
DeathWarWorldStrongFighting
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.
Tom Wolfe
StyleWritingYouBadWhyNewspaper
The fact that there are now gay men and women who can openly serve their country is a wonderful thing.
Rob Halford
WomenMenGayCountryNowServe
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
SinPunishmentOutPainfulPart
Cross platform, we have opportunity across all our businesses to not only take the most well-known and high-profile brands and bring them to life with the guidance of people who know them well, but to incubate new ones.
Diane Nelson
LifeOpportunityPeopleNewKnow
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.
Donald Judd
MomentExperienceThinkYouKind
My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.
Chuck Berry
FatherWayUpConvictionOnceOurs
A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
Brad Feld
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True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
Bryant H. McGill
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