Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.
Ava DuVernay
Recitation: by Male by Female
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
John Bonham
TimeBadStartedGotFineTerrible
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith
ThoughtBetterAnchorNonsenseOut
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou
OpportunityScarcityBecauseMost
The post-crisis perception, at least in the media, appears to be one of Americans being held down by Wall Street, by big companies in the private sector, and by the wealthy. Capitalism is on trial. I see it a little differently. If a lender offers me free money, I do not have to take it.
Michael Burry
MoneyMePerceptionFreeCapitalism
Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.
John Updike
MeDutyFictionSenseBurdened
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
Steven Spielberg
I AmMeWritingTryingI CanRace
The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.
Michio Kaku
YouthBelieveMediaFountainCourse
I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.
Miroslav Vitous
TechnologyAvailableMarketOurCrap
Once you succeed at what you're doing, your parents see that what you were doing wasn't so bad after all, though they'd prefer to see you in a secure lifestyle where you have a contract for years and years, or you have a diploma or degree.
Dolores O'Riordan
ParentsSucceedDoingYouBadSee
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
MotherFutureWomanPeopleMeBlack
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Paul Stanley
MeRock And RollLookFameRockUs
An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.
Paula Radcliffe
LifeLookBackDefineGetBeen
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