It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell
Recitation: by Male by Female
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
Andrew O'Hagan
FootballFindComplimentsFansZeal
Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.
Ander Crenshaw
EnvironmentalEnergyHillEconomic
I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.
Megan Fox
YouDownMatterCelebrityHighLamb
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
TimeHumorWalkingYouDistance
I always believe that Kar-Wai has a complete script: he just doesn't show it to us. He wants us to experience and explore the character. He gives you a lot of space, and you know every time will be a very long journey. You just live in the character, and that's very different from other directors.
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
LiveCharacterJourneyTimeSpace
We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.
Mike Stoller
GreatTimeWritingThoughtNever
I like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma.
Arca
RulesContradictionsLikeExceptions
Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
Anne Lamott
LightMeYearLongSummerGo
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
Alice Hoffman
TruthPeopleSisterThinkThinking
I've been fortunate to be around good people.
Phil Knight
GoodPeopleGood PeopleFortunate
My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.
Peter O'Toole
FoodChoiceFavoriteWouldSecond
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.
Noah Feldman
LawOutsideRightRightsClaimWho
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