Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
Val McDermid
Recitation: by Male by Female
There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.
Johanna Siguroardottir
LifeTimePoliticsMeBelieveEnd
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.
Jennifer Lee
FamilyChildhoodAmericanRareOdd
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
Maya Angelou
TruthChildrenPeopleGrowHonor
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
Tom Peters
ChangeGreatEnoughYouSweatAble
Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work.
Tom Rath
WorkSafetyBetterEmployeesPraise
That's kind of the fun part about acting. We do get the right to kind of get from A to Z any way we want, as long as we start at A and end at Z.
Jason Bateman
FunStartEndLongActingKind
With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.
Jason Dolley
DayPeopleLovedKindOne DayKid
Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets.
Jason Wu
ClothesAlwaysStreetsExuberant
Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.
Josh Hartnett
DailyPerspectiveMeProcessLiving
I feel I need to have people outside of show business who keep me grounded and define who I am.
Debra Stephenson
BusinessI AmPeopleMeFeelNeed
Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style.
Christian Siriano
GoodCommunityStyleCuteSchool
Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
Brian K. Vaughan
TimeMindWritingBookDownPlay
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