If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
Peter McWilliams
Recitation: by Male by Female
The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.
John Burnside
WorkTimeMindEnoughDownI Can
Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.
Robert Reich
WhateverCorporateNationality
I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.
Amy Tan
BookReadingChooseWhyPersonal
With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.
Sigourney Weaver
AlienKindPlansPossibleDirector
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg
VictoryRevolutionRockWillFinal
I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.
Ron Perlman
SayWayYesAnythingAlmost
I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah.
Dominic Monaghan
PeopleGoAfricaOutSomethingOff
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
Donna Leon
FunHappyBe HappyHave FunRich
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
Marilyn Monroe
MirrorBrotherYouLookToo Much
I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.
Maria Mitchell
LifeLoveRoadEnoughEarlyFast
In a strange way, I feel like we need to cultivate more boredom in our lives: like, boredom needs to be okay again. It needs to be seen as a good thing, and I think it's definitely a good thing for relationships.
Mark Manson
GoodThinkFeelBoredomStrangeWay
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
Mark Skousen
SocietyPersuasionTriumphOverSign
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