A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
Recitation: by Male by Female
I do not write, I build.
Alvar Aalto
BuildWrite
Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.
Stephanie Coontz
WomenAlwaysSocialEconomicModel
Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
Tom Hanks
TechnologyCoolFriendsWeekOut
The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
Roy Wood
BestGrowI CanPlayGrassHear
At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'
Jason Mantzoukas
WillMorePointMiddleLikeAccent
Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.
Diane Sawyer
LifeMyselfMovingMy LifeSometimes
Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff.
Chris Hardwick
TimeBrainGameDoingYouReward
There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people.
Chuck Schumer
PeopleJewishCloseBetweenMormon
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
Annie Jacobsen
TimeWorldAirplaneAmericanSwing
To be really honest, I don't love the gym.
Anna Torv
LoveGymHonestReally
For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.
Arundhati Roy
FamilyGodSmall ThingsSpaceSafety
I would love for my phone to scream if I am about to miss an important thing in my life and never bother me if I'm doing something very important and the information coming in is less important than what I'm doing.
Sundar Pichai
LifeLoveI AmMeMy LifeDoing
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