I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.
Alain de Botton
Recitation: by Male by Female
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Maxim Gorky
GirlFiftyCountTwentyOnlyAble
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
John le Carre
GoodYourselfPeopleUnhappyYou
Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.
Jed S. Rakoff
FactsReasonEverythingFactNeeds
I am still a Catholic. I still believe life begins at conception. That is consistent with my Catholic beliefs. And I believe we must protect life. Whenever abortion comes up, we get questioned about the exceptions, but no one ever questions the extreme positions on the other side: late-term abortions, no on parental notification.
Michael Baumgartner
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I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.
Amanda Seales
TogetherChildCreateOnly Child
I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
YoungOutBeenAcademiaSinceEver
A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.
Trent Reznor
FearToughTryingYouFindWall
In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.
Tony DiTerlizzi
WaterPersonalityMeYouKindWay
L.A. is like an oil rig. It's not pretty. It's awful. The air is bad, the view is bad, the people are bad.
Robert Ben Garant
PeopleViewBadOilAirPretty
I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything.
Rose McGowan
BrainLanguageEverythingJustWould
As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets me into trouble.
Ronald Kessler
MeYouTroubleSometimesSecret
I'm a fan of good horror movies.
Donnie Wahlberg
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