I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
Dashiell Hammett
Recitation: by Male by Female
I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.
John Eisenhower
ChildrenBelievePlaceCombatShould
I have spent time in Mongolia, in China.
John Fusco
TimeChinaSpent
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin
FeelingsSameThingsUsPathetic
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
John Piper
GodGroundMilesTornadoLikeHour
I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.
Steve Chabot
DevelopmentSeeWouldLikeFunding
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death.
Tom Shales
MusicTimeDeathRedTalentsPrime
If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.
Rory McIlroy
MorningLightBreakfastLunchStart
Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.
Miguel Sapochnik
DayStandRunNothingJustHorses
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
Lloyd Alexander
PeopleMeWorldFeelingsGoStrange
Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.
Jonathan Demme
LoveTogetherDoingEnoughCamera
My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.
Columba Bush
SadChildhoodSayWouldBit
When I was in high school, I wanted to be a counselor and I wanted to work with kids. I've been through the worst of high school. And I want to motivate people to live the best life that they can, because we're only here for one life.
Shay Mitchell
LifeWorkLiveBestSchoolPeople
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