Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
Henry Petroski
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I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.
Jill Abramson
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Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.
Matthew Lillard
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
Jeffrey Kluger
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If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
Roland Joffe
PeopleWillSeeThingsCountDepth
If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.
Michael Lewis
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Everyone I dated was gay.
Debbie Reynolds
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Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.
Chris Lowe
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I always took a lot of pride in being a safe wrestle. I never injured anyone.
Bret Hart
PrideNeverAlwaysSafeBeingTook
I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.
Polly Walker
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Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.
Peter Singer
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Although I had a good job as an advertising manager for a shoe company in Boston, I really liked to fool around with comedy.
Norm Crosby
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I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.
Lisa Cholodenko
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