Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour.
Howard Jacobson
Recitation: by Male by Female
If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.
John P. Kotter
ChangeCultureYouExperimentBig
When I first went to Hubble, as an astronomer and as a scientist, it was a dream come true. And as an astronaut, the Hubble missions are premiere missions because Hubble is so important to science, so important to humanity, that it's just a very special event. But as an astronomer, it was sort of the holy grail of missions.
John M. Grunsfeld
ScienceHumanityDreamTrueSpecial
Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.
Jeff Buckley
BeautifulWordsYourselfVoiceDark
I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'
Diablo Cody
MeWeirdTelevisionSaidWriteHim
I'm only confrontational with my friends.
Chuck Palahniuk
FriendsOnlyConfrontational
I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.
Ashton Kutcher
CollegeGoalOutEngineerCardio
The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
Win Butler
FunnyMusicMeBetterChurchYou
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.
Penelope Cruz
DisciplineDanceSmilingYouFall
I was always taught at medical school that you should never do a test unless you could do something with the result.
Mark Walport
MedicalSchoolResultYouTest
I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.
Lisa Bonet
TimeFeelingSpentLotRejected
I appreciate that Bayern always wants to have the best German talents.
Leroy Sane
BestAppreciateTalentsAlwaysWants
I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it.
Kirstie Alley
FatNothingCallElse
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