Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.
Isabella Bird
Recitation: by Male by Female
My mother insisted that her children read.
Jimmy Buffett
MotherChildrenHerReadInsisted
I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.
Meghan Ory
LoveFunYouActingFantasyFan
I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and a positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.
Robert Palmer
PositiveAttitudeThinkI CanWant
Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough.
Matthew Lesko
EnoughLookBadWantThingsPull
I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.
Amitabh Bachchan
FailurePoliticsJobAccepted
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
Robert Burton
LifeGoodManAngelLongBad
Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image.
Martina Hingis
HomeBestImageWellMaybe
My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
Doug Aitken
WorkSpaceBrainProcessYouOffice
In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating.
Colin Firth
WaitingPeopleYouLightsUpThings
I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.
Brendan I. Koerner
PeopleLookingBackKnowCubaGoing
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
Ashwin Sanghi
CreativeMeWritingWriteExpression
No one can deny that Russia fired some big rockets and placed satellites into orbit. But there's been a deluge of poppycock about 'miraculous' scientific advances that enabled them to do it. Much of this analysis reflects ignorance about rocketry.
Willy Ley
IgnoranceRussiaAnalysisBigFired
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