The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
Recitation: by Male by Female
If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.
John Yarmuth
OpportunityPeopleVoiceYouCreate
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
Amy Tan
PathPeopleThinkRightRight Path
I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
Alvaro Enrigue
BookThinkImportantMagicalNowhere
I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
PeopleThinkHouseKnowWhyLeave
I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.
Sonia Rykiel
PeopleFashionInterestedOther
You're always just going to be who you are.
Soccer Mommy
YouAlwaysGoingJustWho
I want to do a book called 'Shopping and Cooking for One with Tony Danza,' where I will show you how to shop. And, by the way, it should be a movement, because there are many single people in this world. You go to the supermarket, and you need celery, you gotta buy a whole head of celery. It's very difficult for single people.
Tony Danza
CookingPeopleShoppingWorldBook
Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
Jasper Johns
MeWhateverFalseSeemsArtificial
I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.
Diana Vreeland
SweaterMoreAlwaysWearMuch
My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.
Denis Leary
FirePeopleHomelessBuildingWarm
I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.
Chirlane McCray
LifeDayPeopleCitySayingBetter
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.
Chris Abani
StyleDarknessAmericanLiterature
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