In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.
Patrick Collison
Recitation: by Male by Female
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
Steven Chu
QualitySchoolParentsTwoSystem
The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
FakeWell DoneNewsDoneSayNever
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
Robert Capa
WarMissDateLikeInvasionTurner
I have the life of seven cats.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
LifeCatsSeven
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
Michael Tippett
MusicYouStrangeUnderstandBecause
Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.
Josh Holloway
LifeMy LifeDarkDark SideMore
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
Jonathan Lethem
WorkBookNeverImageHeadShape
I have no desire to switch companies or go to UFC or anything like that.
Dolph Ziggler
GoDesireAnythingLikeSwitchUFC
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.
China Mieville
BeautifulParentsMeLookingName
Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.
Pierre Curie
HandsDangerousCriminalVeryCould
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
Sydney Pollack
MeActingKnowingRealWithout
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
Richard Hofstadter
CharacterFreeCriticismAnything
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