A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
Vittorio Alfieri
Recitation: by Male by Female
The women here are the ones that hold the families together. So if my mom were to be unhappy with me, in a way, it would be like I would have lost my entire family.
Jesmyn Ward
FamilyWomenTogetherMeMomLost
I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'
Jennifer Lee
FoodCultureYouBackSayOdds
You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
Andrew Niccol
WorkChoicesSomeoneHandsYouTwo
While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
John Hodgman
LifeWorldEndTelevisionUnderstand
I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.
Tom Watson
YouNeverComplainAffectTakeBeen
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
Robert Winston
GoodChildrenParentingWorldThink
People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.
Martin Scorsese
PeopleEndSomeoneYouLoseSay
I think my strength is to act instinctively, really quickly, on what I believe, what I see in this person. A proper portrait. I wouldn't dream of doing something inappropriate for that person. I guess I make the person comfortable around me.
Juergen Teller
StrengthMeBelieveThinkPortrait
I love heels. I remember the first time I saw a pair of heels my mum said: 'You're not wearing those. They're too high!'
Dionne Bromfield
LoveTimeRememberYouSaidHigh
I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.
Diane Keaton
LifeMy LifeGoSaidNeverWould
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Desmond Tutu
EvilHumanExtraordinaryHuman Beings
Both parties are so entrenched in their ideologies and a desire to score political points and hold on to power that we never seem to agree on a problem, much less find solutions.
Bob Beckel
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