Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
Recitation: by Male by Female
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
John Owen
FoodManExerciseTemptationKnife
I've always been attracted to multicultural music. It's where the world is going.
Anat Cohen
MusicWorldAlwaysWhereGoingBeen
School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.
John Taylor Gatto
SchoolWinDoingBadKnowJail
Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.
Amy Grant
ExperiencePeopleThinkPersonal
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.
Siri Hustvedt
LifeMomentWritingThinkParis
Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Mike Pence
TimePartnershipSecurityTradeUs
People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.
Mike Rowe
TruthPeopleProudTruth IsCareer
I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled in studies. I was a topper in school and college, so when I decided to become a model, people said, 'Oh your daughter is modeling,' so at least my parents could say, 'Yeah but she also came first in class.'
Anushka Sharma
DaughterSchoolParentsCollegeSaid
There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.
Phoebe Snow
WomenRelationshipYourselfSchool
For me, I really like the human drama embedded in a crime story, and I like the way European films do that.
Scott Frank
MeStoryDramaCrimeWayHuman
Life is about family and technology.
Mark Goddard
LifeFamilyTechnologyAbout
Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.
Lindi Ortega
MeSongFeelYouAlienRace
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