Fame is a problem of perspective.
Ethan Canin
Recitation: by Male by Female
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
John Bradshaw
MistakesLearnHelpTeachersOkay
All you try to do in any system you incorporate is put players in their areas of strength and try to hide and minimize their weaknesses.
Jeff Van Gundy
StrengthYouHideTrySystemAny
I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.
Amanda Hocking
DoneKindWriteAlwaysOutHead
I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.
Amity Gaige
ConfidenceAmericaFindMysterious
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
Steven Wright
TimeCoffeeBackAlmostInstantPut
We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.
Russ Feingold
LawNeedJokeElectionsGetRid
The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
Michael Winslow
MusicKeyBetterDifficultRight
Soon after the inauguration, the Obamas gave Big Food a case of heartburn when, in the spring of 2009, Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn, a symbolic but nevertheless powerful act that thrilled the food movement.
Michael Pollan
FoodSpringPowerfulHouseGarden
Nobody knows this, but the first actual purchase, after I signed my deal and called my bank account and heard how much money was in there - 'cause I was so broke and hungry - was Taco Bell.
Logic
MoneyNobodyBankFirstBellTaco
Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.
Dikembe Mutombo
LeadershipCityBasketballWorld
My parents wanted their daughters to reach their full potential. I joke that they said, 'We left our homeland so you could pursue your dreams - as long as you're a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer.'
Dina Powell
DreamsYour DreamsParentsDoctor
If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.
Douglas Tompkins
CultureCell PhoneThinkYouPhone
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