My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.
Sylvia Fraser
Recitation: by Male by Female
Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?
Joaquin Andujar
RespectWhyNo Respect
I've been given my money. Nobody has ever beaten me out of one quarter. And that's all I've ever been concerned about.
Jesse Stone
MoneyMeNobodyOutQuarterBeen
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.
John Singer Sargent
HabitBookBackBrilliantReasonUp
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen King
ChangeTalentThinkYouChooseMore
I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted.
Stefan Edberg
GoodMistakeHotNextJustMade
Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say 'screw this.' They hate the products.
Tony Fadell
HateStoryYouSmokeWallPerson
I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
Loretta Young
BusinessYourselfFightPictureYou
I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.
Lisa Marie Presley
FoodExerciseSmokeWrongNailsEat
I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.
Douglas Kennedy
WorkNew YorkFindI CanNewThree
The Lord called me to plant a church.
Bobby Rush
MePlantChurchLord
I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.
Brian Behlendorf
SayWhyWillProjectOpenSource
Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
Bono
YourselfPotentialFriendsViolence
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