I don't think I was a catalyst for the women's movement.
Aretha Franklin
Recitation: by Male by Female
My son, Gio, wanted to do a horseback trip in Mongolia, but he didn't want to do an Abercrombie & Fitch-type tour, where they show you around while you sleep in B&Bs.
John Fusco
SonSleepYouWantWhereShow
Most film productions, when they're based at a place, they get, like, a 30-mile radius or a 30-minute radius to get out of the town. And once you go past that, your day starts to become shorter, and you have to start paying your drivers more, and everybody just gets paid more, and you have less time to shoot, and everything costs more.
Jeff Nichols
TimeDayPastStartYouPlace
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.
Steve Vai
AttitudeEnergyStoryEverything
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
Tony Judt
I AmOptimismGoHistoricalAgainst
It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.
Michel Foucault
GovernmentMeClaritySaidMustFar
Let me say that if the political arena is your choice as you work to keep our democracy strong and our essential freedoms accessible for all, then that is what you should do, and I salute you. We need champions in all walks of our civic discourse.
Loretta Lynch
WorkMeDemocracyStrongPolitical
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
Judd Nelson
SuccessFailureAgeEarlyCelebrity
The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.
Brandon Webb
WarYouRulesFlexibleAfghanistan
I can't express enough to anyone who is fighting for whatever their dream is, whether it's to become a doctor, or a teacher, or a photographer - it doesn't matter - it's such a hard, hard road.
Ashleigh Murray
TeacherDoctorRoadFightingEnough
The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.
Woody Hayes
FireLongI CanWantCoachSame
If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.
Philip Levine
VoiceYouAliveDominantDestroy
Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.
Philip Yancey
FreedomChildrenSocietyStrongFeel
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