You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Recitation: by Male by Female
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.
John Henrik Clarke
BeginningPeopleWorldInformation
My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.
Jeff Mangum
TimeBrainWhateverComingPretty
One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.
Michael Gerber
BusinessPeopleChallengesThink
You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.
John T. Chambers
FinanceCandidBetterViewHelpYou
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Steven Weinberg
SmallPersonExpertErrorsGrand
We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.
Tony Snow
HopePeoplePossibleHumanRebuild
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.
Roger McGuinn
MusicBeautifulBestStoryThings
I've honed in on three questions that I ask myself when I'm evaluating where to spend my time. Is this something that I'm passionate about, is it purposeful, and will I have impact? And if I can't answer 'yes' to all three questions, then I have to sit back and ask, 'Is it really that important?'
Mindy Grossman
TimeMyselfImpactQuestionsBack
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.
Jared Diamond
GreatCoffeeEffortForestHelp
This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it looks unpredictable. There's a circus-like free market.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
IdeasFreePoliticalAmericaLooks
My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!
Johnny Mathis
MusicMomLovedChristmasAwfulDid
The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!
Dree Hemingway
PeopleNameGoTeachersEnglishWho
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