When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Recitation: by Male by Female
The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.
Angelica Ross
ArtWomanMeCallDragFemale
I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.
Sloane Crosley
LovePeopleAdviceGivingKnowHow
False Claims Act violators who self-report generally receive the same penalties and face the same damages as those who are caught. I think this makes very little sense.
Trent Franks
FaceThinkSameLittleFalseAct
I think more important than law is the hearts of people.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
PeopleLawThinkImportantMore
Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse.
Josh Hopkins
RideHorseRidingPretendingThan
Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
LifeFatherMotherAngryMy Life
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.
Joseph Brodsky
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
ClimbLegalMankindUpwardThose
I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
Drew Barrymore
LifeRoadYouKnowBeenStore
'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breathless pulp.
Chris Pavone
MoreFictionGeneralThanBreathless
I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.
Brad Feld
GoodOptimismPersonMoviesTopOut
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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