My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
Harold E. Varmus
Recitation: by Male by Female
Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
DiversityCivil RightsFrontierBooks
My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.
John Oliver
DailyJourneyPeopleMeGreenHelp
My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.
Stephen Paulus
MusicContrastUsedBasedPlenty
I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
Tom Lehrer
MaturityTryingAdolescenceBypass
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
Roald Dahl
GoldBlackCoal
During the Clinton administration, America's image was that of a strong, confident and kind world leader.
Mike Medavoy
LeaderWorldStrongConfidentKind
I have spent years representing victims of racial profiling and police brutality and investigating patterns of drug law enforcement in poor communities of color - and attempting to help people who have been released from prison attempting to 're-enter' into a society that never seemed to have much use to them in the first place.
Michelle Alexander
PolicePeopleLawLaw Enforcement
There's a different kind of attitude when you come from Western New York. You work for everything you get, and nothing's really handed to you... You realize good work turns to good things, and that's the edge I always came up with.
Luke Harper
WorkGoodAttitudeNew YorkYouNew
Charles Miller cannot bring down my government.
Denzil Douglas
GovernmentDownBringCannotMiller
My dad has definitely sacrificed a lot for me, and I don't know if I could do it if I was in his shoes. Leaving your life behind and chasing this dream because your kid is passionate about this sport.
Chloe Kim
LifeShoesMeDreamKnowLeaving
I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.
Craig Charles
SadNiceLadderNeverRealKnew
There's always the joy of the performance and fine-tuning new interpretations. Over the years, we've all grown as musicians, so obviously there is a lot of subtlety that wasn't there in the first place.
Chris Squire
JoyPerformanceMusiciansPlaceNew
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