We try not to look at everything through a competitive lens.
Peggy Johnson
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
Jerry Saltz
ArtUglyHappyPeopleWhiteKnow
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
Angela Carter
FamilyMotherTimeDayTalentWar
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.
Steve Coogan
MomentPeopleFeelLaughComedyYou
For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.
Tony Dungy
LeaderFootballPeopleCollegeLook
Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.
Robbie Robertson
CountryLivedCauseCowboysGuitars
My principal contribution to the Black-Scholes option-pricing theory was to show that the dynamic trading strategy prescribed by Black and Scholes to offset the risk exposure of an option would provide a perfect hedge in the limit of continuous trading.
Robert C. Merton
BlackStrategyPerfectPrincipal
I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.
Roxane Gay
UniverseTryingBadImagineKeep
I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.
Michelle Shocked
MusicSoulThinkFeelingSwingJust
I know that I want to consistently return to doing plays. That's one of the most important things because I think it's the best place for me to learn how to act.
Lucas Hedges
BestMeThinkLearnDoingPlace
A family is something that I definitely want, but I'm 26, so I have plenty of time, and I try not to kind of confuse the two because, if I'm lucky enough, I want to make having a baby a personal decision rather than a career-defined one.
Lizzie Armitstead
FamilyTimeDecisionBabyEnough
Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.
Chelsea Clinton
LiveSocial MediaPeopleSelfless
Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but somebody has to be his friend. Just to make sure I don't forget, Don gave me a doormat that sits just outside the front door of my house. It reads: 'The Newharts: The Rickleses Best Friends.'
Bob Newhart
FriendBestMeDoorReputationKnow
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