Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think it's true for all of us, if you find yourself doing really well at something, then the pressure is on you to try to improve.
Joe Morton
YourselfThinkPressureDoingYou
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
Maya Angelou
WomanManPoetryBlackYouGay
Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.
Ann Powers
PracticeThoughtHip-HopMoreOver
When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.
Amy Tan
MomentCompassionPeopleReadingYou
Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
TrustJobEffortLawConflictWorth
I've never met a Mormon I didn't like. They're really nice people. They're so Disney. They're so Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Trey Parker
PeopleNiceNeverLikeMormonMet
When I started my company, many people said I shouldn't launch it as a retail concept because it was too big a risk. They told me to launch as a wholesaler to test the waters - because that was the traditional way.
Tory Burch
PeopleMeSaidTestWayRisk
This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.
Toussaint Louverture
DaySlaveryGunYouLibertyWill
Looking the way I look, whenever anybody's looking for a light brown funny guy, I get the call... I'm 100 percent Greek, but I look like I could be Indian or Middle Eastern or Hispanic. If it's ethnic, they'll try and put me in it.
Jason Mantzoukas
FunnyLightMeLookingLookWay
A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.
Jason Silva
LifePeopleControlThinkingTrue
The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'
Jose Ferreira
EducationGoodStupidThinkYouBad
While I was in 'Inadmissible Evidence' at the Donmar, I was mugged at the HSBC ATM on Shaftesbury Avenue. I grabbed one of the men, and when the police arrived, they put both me and him against a wall until they worked out which of us was the criminal.
Douglas Hodge
MenPoliceMeWallHimOut
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