Teachers have a million stories, but nobody consults them.
Frank McCourt
Recitation: by Male by Female
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.
John Updike
RespectArtSpiritualEffortEnough
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.
Ana Castillo
MotherManMeSearchYoungTalk
Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.
Mike Myers
WorkLoveSayingYouGrowingHim
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
WorldFactsThingsTotality
Love your job, stay punctual, and appreciate everything!
Liu Wen
LoveJobAppreciateEverythingStay
All I want to do is win the Premier League and Europa League - I don't stop to think about being named as the Player of the Year. It's not something that interests me.
David Silva
MeWinThinkYearStopWant
People think sport is life and death - it's not.
Bradley Wiggins
LifeDeathPeopleThinkSport
I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material.
Aries Spears
GreatThinkPushLongYouBar
We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape a new economy and a new democracy that don't force them to choose between making a living and being a part of a healthy democracy.
Alicia Garza
WomenDemocracyBuildingBlackLabor
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft
TodayEffortSocialismNewLabor
I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.
Phil Gramm
GrowthNegativeBadNewsSaidKeep
Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.
Peter York
SmallLookSeriousLivingWriteWho
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