If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
William Graham Sumner
Recitation: by Male by Female
I am a very private person, but when you get recognized, it's an opportunity to make somebody's day.
Matt Czuchry
OpportunityDayI AmYouPersonGet
Because of my grey hair and glasses, people think I'm Phil Donahue.
Jeff MacNelly
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Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
John Polanyi
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I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel that a composer is wounded, like all of us.
Stephen Hough
MusicMeFeelYouI CanAdmire
The teenage years are my least favorite, though my son is phenomenal. He does not get in trouble, and he's not a bad kid. But the fact that they think they know so much.
Rozonda Thomas
SonThinkBadTroubleKnowKid
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault
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Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.
Mary Roach
PeopleDieYouSummerKnowEveryone
I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.
Del Shannon
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Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.
Denis Villeneuve
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Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
Deborah Kass
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I don't have email.
David Sedaris
Email
Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.
Bret Stephens
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