I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
Frank McCourt
Recitation: by Male by Female
Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.
Joe Sakic
WifeMeHockeyEverythingWhereMet
I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.
Andrea Arnold
TimeSleepRememberYouChristmas
If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.
Anderson Cooper
SpeakThinkLanguageLearnLossYou
What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.
Robert Klein
GoodChildrenJobSomeoneValues
As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.
Ann Hood
MeBetterWeekStrongerBodyThree
When at the CIA, I was fond of saying that many jihadis join the movement for the same reasons that young Americans join the Crips and the Bloods: youthful alienation, the need to belong to something greater than self, the search for meaningful identity. But it also matters what gang you join.
Michael Hayden
IdentitySayingSelfSearchYou
The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.
Amanda Foreman
HistoryWifeBeginningQueenCake
Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
Roger Ebert
LifeChallengesUpCannotOnlyMade
I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character.
Cornelia Parker
FatherCharacterWayDominantHe
I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.
Clara Hughes
BeautifulMomentBelieveFeelAlive
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
Richard P. Feynman
NatureTruthKnowKindEverything
When I took on 'Fargo,' I thought, 'Well, this is just a terrible idea. Four people will watch it, and they'll hate-watch.' But that allowed me to just go for it and take the risks.
Noah Hawley
RisksPeopleMeThoughtGoWill
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