Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire
Recitation: by Male by Female
I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.
Michael Chabon
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People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.
Stella Young
PeopleUncomfortableDisabilityAbout
Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles
WorkLaborNothingWithoutProspers
My personal style: trenches, high-waisted pants, pantsuits, silks.
Sofia Richie
StylePersonalPantsPersonal Style
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
Steve Swallow
PlaySeeI SeePlayingBeforeActs
Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.
Tony Vincent
WorkYourselfSurround YourselfLearn
I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.
Tucker Carlson
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I'm not one of those artists who doesn't want to play their most popular songs.
Tom Scholz
PlayWantArtistsWhoSongsMost
In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
WomenSadManSmartFeelTried
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.
Mohsin Hamid
BirdsFlyingIgnoreFirstBorders
When I do actual sequential work, I really want a story I can get a behind: a story that really holds my attention for, like, the length of what I'll be working on.
Brian Stelfreeze
WorkStoryAttentionI CanWantGet
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.
Atul Gawande
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