My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
Seamus Heaney
Recitation: by Male by Female
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
Joe Elliott
ArchitectureBetterBuildingsLook
I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.
John Avlon
PowerResponsibilityBelieveFirst
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Robert Shea
PeopleOrganizationPowerfulHuman
After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.
Matthew Perry
LaughFirstStageGotAfterHooked
There's something about the West Coast. The air is lighter. The vibe is chill.
Matthew Ramsey
ChillAirWestWest CoastSomething
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
Amy Chua
ParentingParentsKnowAsianHonest
I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.
Spike Jonze
LoveFailureMeFriendsYouKnow
I'm a situationist when it comes to anything creative, and that stands with the visual part of anything I do as well. I deal with the concrete things I have in front of me, and I think that's a wise way to be.
Roisin Murphy
CreativeWiseMeThinkWayConcrete
I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.
Jonah Peretti
TimeIdeasProudThinkImpactYou
I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, 'Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.'
Domhnall Gleeson
ThinkThoughtFeelDoingFlawsSee
There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.
Dennis Prager
WarNew YorkEvilColdStudentNew
Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.
Dr. Dre
ProblemsViolenceMissionFarGoes
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