Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
Julian Barnes
Recitation: by Male by Female
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
MindHumanHuman MindResourceOur
Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.
John Shadegg
ThinkRetirementAmericanSecurity
I have just been lucky to get challenging characters every time.
Sriti Jha
TimeLuckyGetBeenJustEvery
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
ValuesIllusionTrueNothingSound
Most people I talked to, they'd be like, your first is your worst, because you go on and everybody's probably done more than you, so you get that sense that they're on a whole different level. But they just made me feel like a piece of the family.
RJ Cyler
FamilyPeopleMeFeelYouDone
When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.
Rod Rosenstein
SilenceInformationOpenAnything
Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.
Mike Gallagher
NameSomeoneLongYouMatterRight
Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.
Janet Yellen
WorkJobLoseDownSkillsBecome
To me, the greatest asset of the Fed is the people. We have a tremendously dedicated staff... They feel proud to work for the Fed because this is such a competent, professional and well-respected organization.
WorkPeopleMeOrganizationProud
My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
Denis Leary
FamilyBusinessMoneyDayCharity
No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.
David Starr Jordan
LifeMiserableWhoTriedReally
The world has done nothing to me that I haven't done with the world.
Chuck Berry
MeWorldDoneNothing
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