The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small.
Richard Corliss
Recitation: by Male by Female
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.
Jill Lepore
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The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
Jerry Pournelle
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I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.
John Lydon
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It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
Andy Serkis
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Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
Michael Ian Black
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When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.
Amanda Beard
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I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.
Sterling K. Brown
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The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.
Matt Blunt
ServiceDecisionMoneyOrganization
As the urgency of the threat presented by Islamic extremism grows, we cannot afford to have the commander-in-chief issue executive orders in direct contravention of laws that he enacted.
Mike Pompeo
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I have been hugely successful at times in my life, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the way up were just as valuable on the way down.
Molly Bloom
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A room is not a room without natural light.
Louis Kahn
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I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
Judy Chicago
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