At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.
Norman Wisdom
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.
Jimmy Dean
GoodMotherTimeFireSchoolHair
I have two Jack Russell terriers, Harley and Gracie, who I like to go running with in the park.
Megan Hilty
GoTwoParkHarleyWhoLike
A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.
John Hodgman
Real EstateMediaWantRealOwn
When I started Participant, I felt that the movie business was ripe for a company that dealt with big issues in a systemic way. I was a little surprised that nobody had done it before. But to most people, entertainment is escapism.
Jeffrey Skoll
BusinessPeopleNobodyDoneWayBig
Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.
Stephen Cambone
CommunityIntelligenceValueLook
There are thousands of people outside the O2 queuing up to see people like Skepta and JME.
Stormzy
PeopleOutsideSeeUpLike
Better governance helps realize the full potential of the many young Africans who are currently giving their families' savings to criminal networks and risking their lives in the vast expanses of the Sahara or Mediterranean instead of starting their own businesses and using their lives to benefit their families and communities.
Miroslav Lajcak
PotentialBetterGivingYoungOwn
In this day and age, people have come to expect that artists are going to give everybody information on Twitter about what they're doing, but not every artist is like that. I'm not really like that.
Josh Trank
AgeDayPeopleDoingInformation
Put the kids in a cool bath, then get them to bed, then light a candle. Do whatever you need to do to ease your troubled mind.
Delilah
LightCandleMindCoolYouBath
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
CharacterExperienceStoryPersonal
People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.
Chelsea Cain
LifeLoveQualityMountainSpace
Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry's speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates).
Chuck Todd
AcceptanceSpeechHimBreakAlmost
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