Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
John Burnside
DisappointmentWorldRoutineWant
The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.
John C. Calhoun
GovernmentSystemPeculiarMayWhole
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry Lewis
HateI AmPeopleMeFamousGenius
To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching.
Jeff Van Gundy
GoodGood TeacherPassionHistory
The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold.
Stacey D'Erasmo
GoldMediaArtistCareerSculpture
Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music?
Shura
MusicMeMoreOppositeArtistsLike
You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
MusicValuePeopleAppreciateYou
I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.
Robbie Williams
MyselfFeelWhyTouchOldAlways
We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way.
Rodney Alexander
WrongWayAnythingSomeDid
Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.
Roman Reigns
GoodPeopleDoingYouDownWant
Too many people have already lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and the more celebrities who can bring attention to the issue, the better.
Lisa Lampanelli
PeopleBetterAttentionLostMore
'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.
Jonah Hill
LifeMeIdeasCoolThoughtReal
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