The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
Kofi Annan
Recitation: by Male by Female
I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.
Jeremy Lin
BasketballTalkingAttentionScared
My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.
Ana Ivanovic
EducationParentsMeSurpriseKind
Denis Healey refused to contribute an article to the 'Guardian' about his intentions, and was punished by the electorate - and then all Labour MPs - for his presumption in assuming they already knew everything about him. He became famously the best prime minister we never had. Perhaps.
Simon Hoggart
BestIntentionsNeverHimEverything
I love films, I love the way they make me feel.
Josh Bowman
LoveMeFeelWayMakeI Love
Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
WindStand UpTreesStandLookDown
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.
William Safire
GoodWorldPartnerPoliticalYou
My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.
Philip Roth
LifeHateMeWritingEndFat
I think the past need not be the dead past. If we get it right, with new books, the past can be a beacon for the future.
Peter Mayer
FuturePastThinkNewDeadNeed
Both the benefit and the terrifying aspect of standup is when it's going poorly, you've only yourself to blame. There's no one to bail you out. But when it's going great, all that approval is for you.
Thomas Middleditch
GreatYourselfBlameYouOutGoing
If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?
Thomas Friedman
TruthTimeWorldThinkThoughtYou
I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.
Kevin Systrom
DayAmazingYouEvery DayThreeTry
A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house.
Jamie Cullum
WorkYouHouseToysIndulgeYour
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