I write the books to amuse myself.
Ransom Riggs
Recitation: by Male by Female
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter
HealthHistoryControlGenerationUs
For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.
Joe Jamail
EducationMedicalResearchDollar
I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.
Joe Namath
EnjoyAnything
That American confidence is more alive and well than it should be, to this day. But it's such a problem. There's a blindness to that confidence, a presumption that what's good for me is good for you. No! That's what teenagers think: the world revolves around them. As a nation, we've got to stop thinking that way. We're getting too old for that.
Jennifer Egan
GoodConfidenceDayMeWorldThink
The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.
John Glenn
PeoplePoliticalRespondWhoFull
For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.
John Cho
MeInterestingCareerDifficultMost
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
Anna Howard Shaw
GoodWomenGovernmentFreeLiberty
If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.
Matt Haig
ThankfulMoneyBookYouWillMean
The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.
Matt Mullenweg
NaturePowerFirstOpenAnything
People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.
John Sandford
LivePeoplePlaceCaliforniaMuch
You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.
Spike Lee
PeopleResearchYouKnowAskRight
Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.
Stephen Kinzer
DeathWashingtonSentenceOrthodoxy
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