I like things that are sort of comic and humorous rather than satirical.
Whit Stillman
Recitation: by Male by Female
I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
Matthew Perry
BrokenPeopleBetterTryWhoSort
And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.
John R. Allen
RelationshipDayPoliceDifficult
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Hufstedler
ChildrenTeacherPeopleSocietyFace
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Michael Phelps
SportsYouDreamMoreLimitGet
It begins with the kind of story the writers want to tell. We never sit around in those retreats and say, 'We really need to make a change. Let's change this character.' Or throw a dart at the wall and see what hits. It all begins with story.
Jason Aaron
ChangeCharacterStoryWallKind
I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.
Dominic Monaghan
WorldYouLivingNothingPretty
A lot of early Misfits song titles are inspired by old B-movies, which were my Popeye's spinach when I was a kid.
Colson Whitehead
SongEarlyOldKidInspiredTitles
Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.
Bret Stephens
LovePeopleUnderstandWillFail
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
Arthur Machen
KnowledgeMysteryPrinciplesHuman
I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
Winona Ryder
WorkPerformanceFeelI CanDone
It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It's a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?
Seth Shostak
CommunityWordsToughSomeoneYou
Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.
Martin Freeman
StyleMoreBeingThanSensibility
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