You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
George S. Patton
Recitation: by Male by Female
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
John Cage
BoringTryTwoSomethingStillFour
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy
PeopleSocietyFreeSecretOpen
I find it very hard to take myself seriously.
Max von Sydow
MyselfFindSeriouslyHardTake
Great American leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worshipped God just as our Founding Fathers did. We must never forget this important aspect of our heritage or use it as a political bargaining chip.
Steve King
GodGreatKingAmericanPolitical
When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say.
Sophie Okonedo
CharacterThinkQuestionsTryingSay
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
Sophocles
MindFreeBodyStillEnslaved
Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typically reserved for failed actresses and phenomenally successful rappers.
Mary H.K. Choi
ManNothingMoreSuccessfulRappers
It's weird how the Internet changes everything. The kind of narrow casting... instead of reaching for a broad audience, you are reaching for a more targeted audience.
Martine Syms
InternetWeirdYouKindChangesHow
It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.
Jonathan Dimbleby
OpinionEnoughEasyMoreTesting
I stay in my pajamas until I have to leave for work.
Christine Ebersole
WorkPajamasLeaveStayUntil
My teacher wanted me to do 'Hot Cross Buns,' but all I wanted to learn was 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer.
Clairo
TeacherSunMeLearnIslandHot
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
Claire Tomalin
HistoryPastPeopleProblemsThought
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