Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Horace Walpole
Recitation: by Male by Female
Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.
Jim Gaffigan
FunnyViewYouPoint Of ViewSee
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
Jill Lepore
AmericanOfficeBeenThanFew
I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.
Jesse Eisenberg
LovePeopleReadingNowMoviesHard
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.
John Carmack
BestRandomWinGameBehaviorWorst
'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'
Jennifer Chiaverini
PerspectiveThoughtPresentHouse
You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.
John Darnielle
New YorkSelfEveningFridayWalking
This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a business-like approach to it, the same way I had with football.
John David Washington
FootballLuxuryPrivilegeWayTell
There's a bit of me that always feels like, 'What's next? How can I get better?'
MeBetterAlwaysNextGetLike
The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
Angelina Jolie
I AmFeelYouSexSayWould
Shellac was asked to do a recreation of our first album, but we've always been a band that improvised our sets. That's critical to the way that we function on stage. Whatever the mood takes us on stage can vary from night to night with what you feel like playing.
Steve Albini
NightFeelYouMoodWayFirst
Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen... or not.
Sophia Amoruso
WordsChaosWorldBelieveTools
Throughout the 1990s, Israel and the United States devoted vast resources to weakening the nuclear links between Russia and Iran and applied enormous diplomatic pressure on Russia to cut off the relationship.
Ronen Bergman
RelationshipPressureResourcesCut
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