I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
Peter Jennings
Recitation: by Male by Female
I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.
Jimmy Carr
SimpleSnakeLaughCountryLadder
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
John Gresham Machen
TwoPointOppositionModernChief
I've been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume - four-and-a-half inches wide, seven inches tall - made by a company called Denbigh.
Michael Dirda
SmallTallCompanyPossessionsPaper
But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.
Rose Schneiderman
TimeLawStrongDownKnowHand
I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.
Mary Oliver
LifeThinkMy LifePowerfulEarly
I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
Martin Sheen
PeopleWorldThinkAmericaEnough
It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.
Jason Aldean
GoodTimeHometownYouDoneNice
When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of 'The Blair Witch Project' - of the full, completed movie - went to a lot of the buyers. And so we all saw it before the festival, and I passed, a bunch of people passed... Then I watched the movie marching toward success, and was reminded by my bosses what a dope I was.
Jason Blum
SuccessPeopleDopeProjectSaw
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
Joseph Butler
CompassionPainMindDebtSorrowUs
I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.
Compay Segundo
SingingStopOnlyGrave
I do a lot of screen re-writing.
Bruce Vilanch
ScreenLot
My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I've always had a connection with an older generation.
Britt Robertson
LifeGoodMeGenerationMy LifeShe
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