Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Recitation: by Male by Female
I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.
Jesmyn Ward
ParentsSmallHighUpDifferentSet
My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
John McGraw
NatureStormWindSmallBoyBreeze
I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.
Michael Ignatieff
PoliticsTransitionAlwaysMexico
I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
John Pomfret
PoliceSmallWeekBackNewspaper
I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me.
Solomon Burke
PeopleMeUpRememberedGiveStill
There's something we calculate called an alpha, and that's the stock's return that's independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags.
Louis Navellier
YouIndependentWayAlphaHighGet
I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I go, this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. Now he's changing. All he keeps saying is millionaires and billionaires don't pay their fair share of taxes.
Jon Lovitz
MeListeningSayingGoSaidNow
High jump is such a mental thing. It's you against the bar. It's something that a lot of people struggle with, and people experience slumps and plateaus because of it.
Derek Drouin
ExperienceStrugglePeopleYouJump
We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.
Bob Iger
LiveSocietyActRoleDifferent
We saw firsthand how a collapsed bridge in Skagit County impacted our local economy, which is why we must fix our infrastructure now before it's more expensive to maintain in the future.
Suzan DelBene
FutureBridgeNowWhyFixEconomy
What's on the edge? What's next? That's where I think I do my best work - if I push my whole team to the edge.
Scott Borchetta
WorkBestTeamThinkPushEdge
I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.
Rene Ricard
FutureHistoryTimeArtLivingWill
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