Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin Land
Recitation: by Male by Female
I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.
John Banville
ThinkNameYouPersonKnowHim
Often, if someone wants to date me because they know I'm trans, it's for specifically sexual reasons, and it doesn't ever lead to a relationship.
Angelica Ross
RelationshipMeSomeoneKnowLead
Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them.
Ann Maxwell
PeopleCityBornSome PeopleSome
I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.
Michael Gove
YouthThinkSituationStrikeWell
There's no service ribbon for people who fought in Korea. We lost over 30,000 men between 1951 and 1953 - as many as we lost in 15 years in Vietnam.
Michael Cimino
ServiceMenPeopleLostOverYears
In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called 'Johnny.' I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments.
John Van Hamersveld
Black And WhiteStyleArtSchoolOut
Tennis has given me so many opportunities, and I feel very lucky to have achieved whatever I have, especially coming from a country that does not have a great history in the game.
Ana Ivanovic
HistoryGreatMeGameOpportunities
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Stephen Hawking
SimpleUniverseUnderstandingGoal
Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.
Tommy Lee
BackStageUpPrettyBeatSit
People are always reading things into the films.
Roger Moore
PeopleReadingAlwaysThingsFilms
To me, it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from - if you're a good person and you got my back, I got yours.
Rita Ora
GoodMeGood PersonYouBackPerson
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
Roman Jakobson
LightDarkBrightImageHeavyThick
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