Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
Elliott Abrams
Recitation: by Male by Female
It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.
John Mayer
SuccessPeopleInterestingReactHow
A few years after that first visit, I applied for a job in Yosemite.
Robert Redford
JobFirstYearsYosemiteVisitFew
I was 16 years old and wanted to help my mom with the rent. There was a restaurant called China Buffet in Tampa that hung a 'Help Wanted' sign outside, so I went in and ended up hosting every Friday and Sunday for $6 or $7 an hour.
Michelle Phan
MomRestaurantFridayHelpSunday
Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
Josef Albers
WorkLearnYouSecretsGoCraft
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
LifeEndMy LifeFindWantLived
I love England and the historical aspect of it.
Dennis Farina
LoveHistoricalEnglandI Love
Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.
Clarissa Ward
LifeTimeSimpleMindRememberSure
While we should certainly be investing in our own STEM education, we should take advantage of the thousands of international students who come here to study and are ready to fill these gaps immediately upon graduation.
Brad Feld
EducationGraduationReadyStudyOwn
The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and cooling the planet.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
LiveWorldEarthSunlightLiving
We're the only species who hunts for sport.
Peter Steele
OnlyWhoSpeciesSport
There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.
Peter Hargreaves
TaxWayOldTaxesTakeGoing
The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.
Seth MacFarlane
YouWantNothingWorstHappenOut
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