There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.
Ken Livingstone
Recitation: by Male by Female
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman
MindStartProcessYouGoalPlay
I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.
Maureen Forrester
GrandchildrenThreeHopingAm
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean Paul
JoyWorldGiftFindingGoLeaving
Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
John Tukey
FocusUnexpectedValuesExpected
If somebody says they are going to do something - and then later they don't - it affects me a lot, and I lose confidence in them.
Royston Drenthe
ConfidenceMeLoseSomethingGoing
You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.
Mike Rogers
DesignYouRealTestingGetDeal
I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.
Min Jin Lee
WomanThinkYouTakeWellWriter
Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned.
Derek Sivers
SearchI CanKnowClientsEverything
There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.
Bruce McGill
GoodKeep GoingJobFinanceYou
And I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.
Anthony Kiedis
MeThinkFriendsGoMatterGuy
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt
QualityShiningDefectSomeAnother
I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Paul Wellstone
LeadershipCommunityPowerDignity
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