I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
Larry Niven
Recitation: by Male by Female
We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.
Jesse Williams
TeacherGreatYou Can Do ItBelieve
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.
Jennifer Egan
WorkTimeThinkWillMeanOver
The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.
Medgar Evers
HomeCityColorBetterAmericaHelp
If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.
Robert Hunter
PowerSongYouBoxTellForever
Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off.
Tony Bennett
BirthdayGreatMeKitchenPartyRat
Before 'Lost Boy,' I was singing, doing six-second covers on Vine, working part-time and in school, but music was always my true love.
Ruth B
LoveMusicTrue LoveSchoolSinging
It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.
Michelle Rodriguez
WaterOceanMeWorldActionWaves
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.
Michael N. Castle
GreatStruggleAmericanStronger
Being solo really lends itself to different interpretations - and everything is in the moment and on a whim. I never realised how far out you can go when you are by yourself.
Chris Cornell
MomentYourselfYouGoNeverOut
If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.
Christina Romer
GoodMoneyEqualityConstruction
I learned a lot from Direk Brillante Mendoza and Bing Lao.
Coco Martin
BingLearnedLot
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
William Graham Sumner
GreatDevelopmentCapitalContinent
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