Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Recitation: by Male by Female
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
Jimmy Wales
WorkPeopleRandomDownKnowGroup
When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.
Joe Meno
CharacterOpportunityMeThoughts
After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.
Jeremy Corbyn
MeWorldSpeakCountryThreeMatter
Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.
John Collison
TechnologyPeopleBuildingBetter
The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.
Jeffrey Sachs
WayThailandDramaticStartedAfter
I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.
Amy Ryan
ConfidenceFreedomGreatFindActor
A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
Alva Myrdal
GreatBalanceConceptsBeenReally
I remember kids in high school and middle school who - I was kind of an insecure mess - I think there were those kids who really stepped out and paid attention to the kids that weren't as popular, and I see those kids as leaders.
Tony Hale
SchoolHigh SchoolThinkRemember
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Robert Browning
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I haven't done the Star Wars kind of films.
Roger Spottiswoode
DoneKindStarWarsStar WarsFilms
I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.
Rob Lowe
TruthMoneyMistakesManCareer
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
Roy H. Williams
MusicGodTimeLightSpaceEnergy
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