Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
George Saunders
Recitation: by Male by Female
I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.
Ann Curry
LivePurposeChoosePassionateDays
When I'm in the gym, different training partners tell me that I've got great conditioning, and I tell them, 'Really? Because, I'm dying here.' I think that I'm just as tired as anyone; I just push myself mentally.
Michael Bisping
GreatMyselfTrainingTiredMePush
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
Michael Chabon
AmazingBookMeetingBedTwoShare
I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
Roman Polanski
MeNeverSatisfiedFilmMadeWhich
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
Mary Garden
KnowHopelessWriteUpCriticWho
To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.
Christine McVie
MusicYouEmotionAlwaysRather
It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.
Christopher Buckley
MistakeThinkNameOwnLastBeen
Keep your enemies in front of you.
Chris Matthews
YouEnemiesKeepYourFront
My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.
Portia de Rossi
FearFeelingsOutHerDealStuff
I had to make 500 shots every day, and when my mom wasn't looking, I'd get up closer to the basket and do lay-ups and count them, and she'd be at the back window at the kitchen and knock. Then I'd have to go back and shoot from longer.
Tyler Joseph
DayMomWindowKitchenLookingBack
In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.
Nina Fedoroff
ChangeFoodPeoplePlantsNothing
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.
Rene Cassin
ProblemFirstRightsSocialLeft
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