My father made me who I am; he was incredibly intellectually generous.
Alissa Quart
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.
John Edgar Wideman
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I can't tell you how important it is for people on the public stage to utilize that stage in a constructive, positive way. When you're in the public eye, you have a decision to make - whether you are going to be an influence or not.
Steve Largent
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In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
Tom Brokaw
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I can give a speech, and I can do a rally, and I do them, but that's not what I like to do.
Rob Portman
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I get through difficult situations by looking at how other people have gone through them. I say to myself, 'If they can go through it, then I can.' Or, If they can go through worse, I can go through whatever I'm going through.
Rudy Giuliani
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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
Mary Douglas
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The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.
Clayton M. Christensen
DoingPersonalWillAlwaysCost
Don't take things too seriously.
Bruce Oldfield
SeriouslyThingsTakeToo
I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.
Brigitte Nielsen
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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
Susan Cain
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Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.
Seymour Hersh
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