The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.
Nellie McKay
Recitation: by Male by Female
When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.
Joe Meno
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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
Angela Duckworth
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
John Perkins
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Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
Stanley Crouch
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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
Robert Anton Wilson
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I'm always trying to improve, and you can't ever expect anything from me. You can always just expect me to be dangerous.
Rose Namajunas
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President Obama is an inspiration of mine, and interning with his administration in the White House opened my eyes to the possibilities of making change at the local level.
Michael Tubbs
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Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people.
Miranda Otto
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
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I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.
Little Richard
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My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.
Deborra-Lee Furness
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Alfred North Whitehead
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