A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'm from Chicago, so you know we come from juking and footwork.
Jeremih
YouKnowChicagoComeFootwork
I wanted to create a collection of leather handbags which would not only reflect the brand's DNA but also appeal to a busy cosmopolitan woman.
Matthew Williamson
WomanBusyBrandCreateDNALeather
When you live in a city where you're always in and out of a car or a building, I feel it's... better to treat a heavier, tweedier sport coat almost as you would outerwear.
Michael Bastian
LiveCarCityBuildingTreatBetter
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.
Tom Shales
AmericanTelevisionLivingWayCome
In addition to pain, disability, and disfigurement, lymphatic filariasis carries a heavy social cost. Those disfigured by the disease are often shunned. Women are often rejected by their families. Both men and women can have difficulty finding jobs.
Tom Frieden
WomenMenPainFindingDisability
Comedy in the past hasn't spoken to women because it wasn't written by women, and male writers don't make women three-dimensional characters. Too often, women just facilitate the man's comedy: they're not crazy; they're not funny. But women are as vulgar as they are elegant, as stinky as they are smelling of eau de parfum.
Michaela Coel
FunnyWomenPastManCrazyComedy
One thing that struck me in my study of history is how people are excluded. I don't mean just racial minorities or women. Pretty much all poor people who don't have documents are excluded from history and its records. People who were illiterate usually didn't leave any primary documents.
Min Jin Lee
WomenHistoryPeopleMePoorMean
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Diogenes
ArtMasterSlaveRuleBeing
What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.
Dawn Olivieri
ConfidenceBeautifulVoicePushYou
In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
Colson Whitehead
UpDaysAbsurdIdeaExtremesTaking
At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.
William Ivey Long
WorkGreatTalentPeopleInsecurity
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.
Ali Akbar Khan
MusicPathMindWealthRealEven
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