I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
Daniel Pennac
Recitation: by Male by Female
My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.
Joanne Harris
TimeParentsLanguageFriendsGo
Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.
Jo Brand
GenerationAgainstBeforeEach
When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in.
John Rhys-Davies
FearHeartYourselfLosingChild
We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
Steve Jobs
BestPeopleWorldWantThingsHire
Drag is great way to get people to pay attention to me, but it's a difficult way to get people to take me seriously as a musician. So it's a weird Catch-22. It's like a gimmick that gets them to pay attention, but when they see my image, they're like, 'There's no way this is going to have any legitimacy to it.'
Trixie Mattel
GreatPeopleMeWeirdAttentionWay
I come from a state where four governors have gone to jail since I've been alive. Two of my last four predecessors in this seat went to jail or are going to jail.
Mike Quigley
AliveJailTwoGoneWhereGoing
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph Addison
DoingAlwaysSeeSomethingUsWould
It's very complicated when you are reorganizing territories under different ministries. We have to get them all together and transfer jurisdictions. It's a bureaucratic slalom course we have to ski through, but it can be done.
Douglas Tompkins
TogetherYouComplicatedDoneGet
Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'
Craig Kilborn
BudgetLookHouseWhiteOverQuick
My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.
Bruno Latour
NatureScienceSleepPeopleEmotion
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
Pico Iyer
DayWritingSurviveLongGoMovies
Secretary Clinton, right from day one, wants to do real investment in public works and infrastructure, building highways and bridges, building airports, to doing what we need to do that way which lifts the economy up, undoubtedly.
Sherrod Brown
DayBuildingBridgesDoingWayNeed
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