Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde
Recitation: by Male by Female
One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
Jimmy Sangster
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I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.
Joey Lauren Adams
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However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.
Jeremy Irons
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I always followed my own path.
Ann Demeulemeester
PathMy OwnAlwaysOwnFollowed
I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it.
John Tiffany
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I would deal with President Trump's business no different than I would deal with any other business that comes before the committee.
Steve Mnuchin
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In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college's top essay and poetry prizes, to write about 'the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.'
Tom Reiss
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In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.
Rob Sheffield
CelebrateTalkingWayMoreOffice
Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.
Jojo Moyes
WomenAliveHeelsFictionMay
Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
Denzel Washington
TwoGreatestLastCenturyMeryl
Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.
Devin Nunes
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Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Douglas Coupland
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