A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.
David Pogue
Recitation: by Male by Female
If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.
John Mulaney
FunnyDoingWorthThingsSomething
I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.
Jeffrey Eugenides
LifeEndingFeelEnoughWantMean
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
Amartya Sen
WorkPreventionStartedAlso
My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'
Sirio Maccioni
GoodMotherWifeMistakeCityMe
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
Simone Weil
FriendsMeetingSeparationTwoFar
I've competed for so many years that I can go in there and have fun and do what I love, which is fight and compete.
Jose Aldo
LoveFightFunHave FunI CanGo
You can't look at the problem and say, 'I want them to do more, better, faster miracles - and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.' It's unrealistic.
Dean Kamen
MeResearchFreeBetterProblemYou
I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
CourageRespectRisksNeedFilm
At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.
Antony Beevor
HistoryServiceDisciplinePolitics
I never see how meaty my role is. If I like the script in its entirety, the director, or if my co-star is someone I greatly admire, I sign up. You learn so much being part of a great team.
Anushka Shetty
GreatTeamLearnSomeoneYouAdmire
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Anne Stevenson
PoetryYouWeightSlowlyWordBears
I feel like it's important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity that I was given, you know? That's what it's all about, just helping.
Playboi Carti
OpportunityMeFeelSomeoneYou
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