To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Recitation: by Male by Female
I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.
Jennifer Grant
LoveGirlAloneMeBabyFriday
There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.
Amar Bose
BusinessTimeBostonGoneGoingMIT
It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
Sonia Sotomayor
HeartLawConclusionsCasesCompels
My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.
Mike Rowe
WorkMotherCommunityTimeBroken
The lucky village of Sodeto, in the kingdom of Aragon, is a cluster of sensible houses spackled together off the main road, curtained behind a pine copse.
Michael Paterniti
TogetherRoadVillageLuckyPine
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
Lisa Gardner
WomenMenWillDifficultUpGet
If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.
Jonny Lee Miller
JobFoolPeopleThinkInteresting
I've had the most amazing interviews, and I've done interviews that were so bad, I was embarrassed to be interviewed. I've seen both sides of the coin.
Diana DeGarmo
AmazingBadDoneSidesCoinSeen
I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be a good personal friend and professional contemporary.
Douglas Trumbull
LifeGoodFriendRespectTreeHim
We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.
David Whyte
TimeSpeakBusyLostWithoutUs
What I love about Sade other than her smooth and sultry voice is her willingness to be vulnerable. As a powerful, strong and beautiful woman of color, she showed her delicate, passionate side in a world where most of us are putting on a brave face. I love how effortless her style was and how consistent that red lip was!
Wynter Gordon
LoveBeautifulStyleWomanRedFace
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
Willie Morris
HomeDeepGhostsWithoutMustClaim
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