The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
Addison Mizner
Recitation: by Male by Female
Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.
Jim Gerlach
ProgressI AmSeeingCountryNatural
I was getting my Ph.D. in Holland - I speak Dutch - for a number of years before I moved to France because I had one of those offers you couldn't turn down. They offered me to come and do my films.
Melvin Van Peebles
MeSpeakYouDownYearsTurn
From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you 'accidentally' disturb them - probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in - and they can officially bite you to pieces.
John Niven
CarCrazyDoingYouHouseI Can
People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive.
John Higgins
LovePeopleGameBackAliveStreets
I wish I were more disciplined.
Jeff Bridges
WishMoreI WishWereDisciplined
We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.
Michael C. Burgess
PeopleHighUpBeginningsIllness
The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
John Pomfret
TimeJobMeDoingDownRight
On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.
Michael Tolkin
LifeCarDaughterMondayImpossible
My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.
Mohamed ElBaradei
ChildrenControlColleaguesCareShe
I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
Brenda Blethyn
SuccessPeopleThinkFameConfuse
I've always believed that the best way you combat intellectual property theft is making a product available that is well priced, well timed to market, whether it's a movie product, TV product, music product, even theme-park product.
Bob Iger
MusicBestYouIntellectualWay
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
Brian Reynolds Myers
LearningDisciplineBookIntellectual
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