Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
Recitation: by Male by Female
There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.
Jessica Williams
PeopleMeYouLookDownStage
What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.
Andrew Cuomo
EngineeringInfrastructureManhattan
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
Max Planck
ScienceGreatGoQuestionSameUs
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
Angelina Jolie
NatureWarHuman NatureHumanOut
I broke my leg is all I did. I didn't break my brain.
Tony Stewart
BrainBreakLegBrokeDid
Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.
Tom Rath
PositiveMomentYourselfBetterYou
I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.
Michael Vartan
IdiotLookGuyOffJustPull
I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.
Michael Nyqvist
LifeJourneyStruggleThinkMission
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
Jonathan Raban
FailureArtSoulJealousyMeThink
If we want a stronger, cleaner, and fairer world economy, we need to deal with the controversial areas of globalisation, such as tax havens.
Jose Angel Gurria
WorldStrongerTaxWantNeedDeal
When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.
Johnny Depp
BookGuitarLearnDownPlayFound
It's kind of hard to work with Tom Cruise and not be aware that you're working with one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
Doug Liman
WorkStarsWorldYouKindCruise
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