It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display.
Elfriede Jelinek
Recitation: by Male by Female
Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.
John C. Maxwell
LifeChildrenTogetherMeWorldWhy
It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about.
John Mellencamp
FunnyMindWritingOpinionsTry
Memory is more indelible than ink.
Anita Loos
MemoryBrainyMoreInkThan
I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.
Amitava Kumar
DaughterListeningLikeWriter
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.
Siri Hustvedt
ControlThinkFallKnowIgnorant
Our message to leaders from every continent was simple: California has succeeded on climate and clean energy because we've emphasized local, human values and built a coalition that includes community and environmental leaders, working families, and communities of color - as well as unions and progressive business.
Tom Steyer
BusinessCommunitySimpleEnergy
Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by law, only allowed to feature the candidate, with, say, the American flag as the backdrop, alone, speaking directly to the camera?
Ron Howard
AlonePeopleLawVotingAmerican
We procrastinated in the U.S., it's true. And we are changing that.
Martin Winterkorn
TrueChanging
I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.
Marvin Hamlisch
MusicAgeTeacherSisterStartOut
If you take one of the first flights out in the morning, typically the airplane and the crew have arrived the night before. When you're not waiting on an inbound flight, there are fewer delays.
Chesley Sullenberger
MorningWaitingNightAirplaneYou
I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.
Chloe Kim
HateLongI CanGrumpyGetOnly
I think games are a good medium for approaching any subject, particularly difficult ones, because by their very nature, they are abstract, invite interaction and allow us to confront and question things... particularly rules that we may blindly follow.
Brenda Brathwaite
NatureGoodThinkRulesFollow
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