It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.
Mark McKinnon
Recitation: by Male by Female
Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.
Joe Nichols
TimeMeWinningFirst TimeFirst
I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen.
Andrew O'Hagan
PoetryPeopleVoiceBlindLoving
Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.
Maureen Dowd
ReadingYouDigitalContentEmpty
If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.
John Sulston
PurposeWorldYouUniqueDiscovery
I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.
Amy Hoggart
EyesPeopleMeSmallSorryThink
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
Sufjan Stevens
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Mostly, I was into powerlifting when I was in high school. And I just continued to train the same way I was taught - to powerlift. Once I started doing bodybuilding, there were no real differences, just different exercises. A different way of training with more repetitions, but it was still the same lifting of very heavy weights to get stronger.
Ronnie Coleman
TrainingSchoolHigh SchoolDoing
Soon after the inauguration, the Obamas gave Big Food a case of heartburn when, in the spring of 2009, Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn, a symbolic but nevertheless powerful act that thrilled the food movement.
Michael Pollan
FoodSpringPowerfulHouseGarden
Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
Jason Calacanis
ThinkingMediaYouArtistNowOld
One belongs to one's language as a writer.
Joseph Brodsky
LanguageWriterBelongs
Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.
Jon Brion
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One thing I think is great is that if you use social media really well - in a natural, personal way - you can kind of see what's missing. You can see when you're bored of something or of someone.
Jonathan Anderson
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