It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
Nathan Myhrvold
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
John Edgar Wideman
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I enjoy doing nothing.
Jeffrey Bernard
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I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like the idea that I'm just with the words and not knowing what's going on with the world, when it's lunch or dinner.
Michael Connelly
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If I wasn't acting, I would be trying to break into acting.
Stephen Colletti
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Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
Stella Blum
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Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.
Steve Scalise
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It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.
Matt Bomer
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Sometimes I'm on a TV set, and I can't feel what I'm supposed to feel as that character because I've not worked my way up to that point. I think there's a bit more insecurity on a set - you've got to blag it, or you've got to do what you've been paid a lot of money to do in a very short space of time.
Michael Socha
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The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been sitting on the grocery shelf for weeks, even months - even years.
Julia Child
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Water is a cure-all. Water is everything. You can't get better without drinking lots of water, and you can't drink water unless it's clean.
Josh Fox
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Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.
Derek Bok
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There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.
Alison Moyet
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