If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
Recitation: by Male by Female
The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.
Jerry Rubin
PowerSignsIndividualCheckWho
Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
Jesse Jackson
FindGroundCommon GroundCommon
To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.
Andrew Sean Greer
ChildrenWindBookWrongSayHigh
One must be aesthetically long-termist in selecting a man - it's like purchasing a farmhouse in the south of France. Sure, it's beautiful to look at, but will the roof stay on?
Robert Rinder
BeautifulManLookWillRoofStay
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.
Jeff Beck
FunnyGuitarMagicYouGenuineTry
For me as an individual, it's important that I have a career as a role model for my children, that I earn my own money, and I spend it prudently and imprudently.
Trinny Woodall
ChildrenMoneyMeCareerRole Model
Generally, I move in the direction of art.
Michael Keaton
ArtDirectionMoveGenerally
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
Minoru Yamasaki
AgeChaosThinkFeelYouBuildings
Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.
Pharrell Williams
ExperienceDayEvery DayEverything
But you can't really know your audiences so well.
Peter Maxwell Davies
YouKnowWellYourAudiencesReally
In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.
Thomas Frank
BusinessAmericaDoneTrueWayTask
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
Nick Stahl
ExperienceDoingYouSometimesMore
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