I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.
Peter Weller
Recitation: by Male by Female
Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.
Joe Rogan
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I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.
Andrew Shue
FreedomChoicesYouTelevisionRun
My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
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We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
Jeff Tweedy
BeginningWorldFreeInternetBecome
I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.
Michael Ignatieff
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My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.
Ana Ivanovic
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In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book 'The Social Origins of Private Life.' It should have been 'As Pompous as You Want to Be.' Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.
Stephanie Coontz
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You can't get too caught up in yourself.
Simone Biles
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That is not something I embrace. I think there are real distinctions between the Koch brothers and us.
Tom Steyer
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I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.
Mildred Dresselhaus
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I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.
Cheryl Cole
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I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War, I would begin it myself.
Augustus Sol Invictus
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