Who can refute a sneer?
William Paley
Recitation: by Male by Female
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
Ann Druyan
NatureHistoryStormUnderstand
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
Michael Hastings
GreatGovernmentWarVictoryMedia
Boxing changed my life twice.
Amir Khan
LifeMy LifeBoxingTwiceChanged
Don't bring your kids to my show, and I won't come to your house and cuss.
Ron White
HouseBringShowComeKidsYour
When we did our first record, my mindset was this is all going to be over tomorrow.
Mike McCready
TomorrowMindsetFirstOverGoing
It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.
Michelle Yeoh
TogetherToughHandsUnderstandNeed
It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, 'What does he do? What does he do?' My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.
DJ Khaled
MeThinkYouOutJustRecords
It was great about the sizes of the audiences we were getting in America, but sometimes you feel like telling some of the men that you're not on stage to have your body looked at.
Dolores O'Riordan
GreatMenFeelAmericaYouBody
'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.
Chris Weitz
StrengthFaithExperienceReligion
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
Philip Roth
BeautyPowerLiteratureMoralBelief
The only person that I want to love me is my wife.
Peter Capaldi
LoveWifeMeLove MePersonWant
Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.
Mark Pagel
CultureMindControlExerciseAccept
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