My husband, David Simon, and I make our livings using our imaginations.
Laura Lippman
Recitation: by Male by Female
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins
GreatPoetryWritingBookProse
There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.
Jeh Johnson
FearHistoryGovernmentAmerican
Even when I was winning my fights, once it's over, it's over. It's in the past, and you've got to look forward.
Anderson Silva
PastWinningForwardYouLookOver
One thing I try to live by is to not have an end game. Just kind of live for the moment.
Matt Hardy
LiveMomentGameEndKindTry
For Customer Development to succeed, everyone on the team - from investor or parent company to engineers, marketers and founders - needs to understand and agree that the Customer Development process is different to its core.
Steve Blank
TeamSucceedProcessParentCustomer
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
Tracy Chapman
LifeTogetherMeMy LifeSomething
Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.
Mitt Romney
LeaderMeetingsDetroitFixTopHim
That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.
Jonathan Kellerman
GoodMoneyMeWritingDoingKnow
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
Dmitri Mendeleev
LifeNatureLiveDayPresentDouble
I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
Bob Feller
WarPeopleWorldYouSayNavy
I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says 'Allen, I don't like practice, either.' I've got to straighten that kid right then.
Allen Iverson
PracticeMeCareerWorstRightKid
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
William Westmoreland
MasterpieceDeadNamesVietnamJust
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