Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.
Jessica Hagedorn
ThinkEnoughFeelingPureBeingLot
A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name.
John Madden
WorkFootballNameConsultantUp
I'm all in on the Los Angeles Clippers. We're moving forward. We've got to work to be the best we can be to take advantage of all the assets in the community.
Steve Ballmer
WorkCommunityBestMoving Forward
On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.
Tom Rath
TimeDayBossSpending TimeAverage
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
Michael King
HistoryGreatCommon SenseNewTalk
I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.
Lisa Lampanelli
FunnyHateComedyLookTherapyWay
I was brought home to a trailer in Highland, MI.
Dax Shepard
HomeTrailerBrought
I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.
Debbie Reynolds
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I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.
Christian de Duve
LifeGoodLiveTimeUnderstanding
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
William Inge
GovernmentDemocracyExperimentOnly
I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies.
Penn Badgley
MusicLovedMoviesWayListenWatch
I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.
Nina Bawden
JobWarGoSaidWantUniversity
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