I write about families. That is who we are.
Per Petterson
Recitation: by Male by Female
Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.
Joe Lonsdale
LearningFunEnvironmentStudent
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
John Dalberg-Acton
HistorySufferingWrongCompensation
I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.
Andrew Bird
TechnologyLosingMeBrainWant
Your destination might not end up being exactly what you envisioned to start with, but if you stick it out and work through the challenges, what you end up with will be far better than you could have ever imagined.
Joy Mangano
WorkDestinationChallengesStartUp
Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.
Derek Cianfrance
PainWorldFeelLookThroughThings
I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.
Dean Haglund
SchoolChildTheatreTelevisionAlso
In Sweden, if a player has the ball, and you're running across the line of vision, you would never call for the ball. In the United States, if you're open, you're screaming.
Christen Press
VisionYouNeverOpenLineBall
My style kinda comes from the music I listen to.
Willow Smith
MusicStyleListenKinda
When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.
Pierce Brosnan
LifeHomeSufferingDoorEndLoved
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
Norm MacDonald
FunnyLaughComedyYouSurprises
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
Lytton Strachey
LiteratureRareOwnCommonHeOur
Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.
Lysander Spooner
TimeYearsVicesLifetimeBeenMany
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