You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
Giuseppe Verdi
Recitation: by Male by Female
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
Stieg Larsson
LightWritingLiteratureQuestion
One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965, I made a joke about spending $20 billion sending some clown to the moon. I was against the manned space program then, and I'm even more against it now, that whole waste of money.
Tom Lehrer
MoneySpaceMoonYearNowMore
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
Rutherford B. Hayes
I AmPeopleThoughtSoberOffice
'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness... The book satirises archetypes from across Filipino society, and I felt that the least I could do was offer myself up, too.
Miguel Syjuco
MyselfIdeasSocietyFrustrationUp
My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.
Michael Shermer
PeopleMeStrongFactsFindAlways
I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.
Johnny Depp
ThinkNameFamousUncomfortableYou
'2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.
Dinesh D'Souza
OpinionYouHouseWhat IfRepublican
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
Dean Koontz
MeBookHouseEscapeWayKid
I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.
Dean Stockwell
BusinessAgeChildrenPeopleYouUp
Anything can happen in a fight, and anything can happen in training.
Bobby Lashley
TrainingFightHappenAnything
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
Pierre de Coubertin
YouthClassWorkingMustAccessible
I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
Penn Jillette
SportsTalkingAlwaysFirst-Person
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