What you measure and reward is what you're going to get.
Gordon Bethune
Recitation: by Male by Female
When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.
Jimmy Cliff
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I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
John Eaton
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That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
Maxine Kumin
MarriageHappySomeoneYouAnything
Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5,000-7,500 words in a single day.
Robert Silverberg
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For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.
Michael Ignatieff
DemocracyTroubleSeemWhereSecure
Drake is an amazing person. Also, a magician. He's a big brother, super-talent; he's cool.
Travis Scott
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In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
Tony Kushner
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein
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If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
Rolf Harris
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My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.
Michelle Obama
MeFeelWhiteSometimesMatterTry
I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.
Judith Jamison
YouPersonKnowWantHumanWhole
I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.
Judy Blume
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