Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Philip Wylie
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.
Jesmyn Ward
FamilySmallBorderSmall TownEdge
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
Andrew Eldritch
GameRulesNobodyCitizenVocabulary
Kindness can come from someone on Twitter, it can come from someone on the street, it can come from someone at work. Without kindness, I don't know what I would do. The greatest part of life is the simple things.
Andie MacDowell
LifeWorkKindnessSimpleSomeone
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
Summer Sanders
WorkHard WorkChallengeDayPain
Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.
Tom Hanks
LearningSelfLearnYouPhysicsNow
My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall lady. I remember thinking, 'Oh my goodness, a lady runs this country.'
Rita Moreno
ExperienceNew YorkCityAmazing
But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.
Juice Newton
SayingFeelAttentionCountryRadio
He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Jose Marti
OfficeThiefAgainstWhoOwesHe
American businesses and consumers deserve a debit card system with competition, transparency, and reasonable fees.
Dick Durbin
CompetitionAmericanTransparency
Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.
Demi Moore
SomeoneYouBecomeMakeYourWounds
As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.
Douglas Alexander
ChangeFutureWorldClimate Change
I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.
Pete Cashmore
GoodCreativePeopleWorldStart
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