Let optimists rule the world.
Lauryn Hill
Recitation: by Male by Female
In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.
Jhumpa Lahiri
ArchitectureSchoolWonderWhyWrite
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
ManFriendsQuestionsCountryAsk
I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.
John Caudwell
LifeEffortPeopleFeelOutBreak
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
Stephen Ambrose
GreatWorst20th CenturyMadeEver
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.
Tom Hanks
WarParentsGrowing UpYouEarthUp
I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.
Molly Bloom
LifeMy LifeCreditGamesPlayers
You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.
Monica Seles
LoveGreatPeopleColdCareYear
I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.
Joshua Bell
TimeThinkFeelArtistImportant
My parents have been my biggest support. Had it not been for them, I would have not been able to be the confident and fearless person that I am today.
Divyanka Tripathi
TodayI AmSupportParentsFearless
Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
LifeLivingWasted
The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.
Colin Hay
GoodLiveEnergyYouGoOut
I know it's odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you never get to just strap on a tank and jump into the ocean. You have to know how deep you're going, and the deeper you go, the less amount of time you stay down there - and it takes longer to get to the surface.
Brie Larson
TimeOceanDeepYouEarlyDown
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