I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.
George William Norris
Recitation: by Male by Female
I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.
Jennifer Ellison
DanceActSingJustWantedPerform
To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.
Jennifer Egan
HopeCultureThinkingYouWaySame
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.
Robert Green Ingersoll
TodayWomanReligionWorldYouBack
You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.
Jeff Sessions
YouPerfectPriceNothingPay
The licensing business is about licensing the full portfolio of Qualcomm's patents. Some of them involve the chip. Some of them don't involve the chip. In fact, the vast majority of them don't involve the chip.
Steve Mollenkopf
BusinessPortfolioMajorityFact
The harder you try, the better the impression you set on the people around you.
Tom Holland
PeopleBetterYouTryImpression
I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
Tom Morello
FamilySmallGrowChicagoGrow Up
In order to find our bearings in the spiritual worlds and see truly what is there for us to see, we need a further inner trait in our character, a quality I should like to term 'presence of mind.' In ordinary life, this is the trait we need when faced with a situation that requires us to make an immediate decision without hesitation.
Rudolf Steiner
LifeCharacterDecisionQualityMind
We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds - the same as our brain.
Michael Specter
BrainThreeSameCellsOwnTen
I really love Japan, and I liked living there very much, and there are so many terrific things about Japan. However, I do think what's amazing is that Japan really prides itself on being monoracial. It doesn't have the same kind of idea as in the U.K. or Canada or the United States, in which the idea of diversity is a strength.
Min Jin Lee
LoveStrengthDiversityAmazingKind
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
David Zucker
BusinessHumorSmartThinkPolitical
Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.
Dean Ornish
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