I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.
Kim Alexis
Recitation: by Male by Female
I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.
Jennifer Capriati
LifePastFeelMy LifeNewChapter
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
Michael Hirst
LoveReadingProcessEngageAcademic
People come to this country because they view our culture as the best. It is a culture free of persecution, a culture free of oppressive government, and above all... a culture of really, really cool stuff.
Steven Crowder
BestCultureGovernmentPeopleCool
In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.
Tony D'Souza
LifeWorkTimeAmericanBornWrite
I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.
Romesh Gunesekera
Growing UpWorldReadingPlaceYoung
The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.
Mary Daly
IntegrityCourageGreatMoreSee
I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.
Jonathan Bennett
I CanTalkTurnSomebodyLikeThen
I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.
Diana Wynne Jones
AloneMirrorYourselfBeing Alone
The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore
LifeGoodDayGood DayTomorrowYou
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.
Brian Eno
MusicChildMusiciansPossibilities
If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.
Antonin Scalia
GoodTimeYourselfJudgeDoingYou
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.
Susan Orlean
LifeInternetChoiceComfortable
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