False praise is worse than no praise.
Felix Dennis
Recitation: by Male by Female
An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'
Jim Broadbent
RelaxThinkYouEnvyI CanNow
Everyone knows about hot dogs and the Big Apple. But for me, New York City street food is all about the Biryani Cart.
Andrew Zimmern
FoodNew YorkCityMeAppleStreet
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
John Robert Seeley
VirtueSafeEnthusiastic
In the end, the public has the right to know about any undertakings top public officials engage in that may influence how they conduct the people's business.
Mike Quigley
BusinessPeopleInfluenceEndKnow
You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.
Jose Manuel Barroso
FearBetterYouFeelingsCrisisSee
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Joseph Conrad
RevolutionIntelligentMovementNoble
They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.
Della Reese
BeginningTryAirStartedUsOff
I love the short-haired lifestyle.
Anne Hathaway
LoveLifestyleI Love
It was my first day at work - and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people... soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
WorkDayJobBeginningTraining
I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent's legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral fracture. They had to put in a plate and five screws. It was a devastating moment: one minute I was on cloud nine, and then I was out for the season.
Ali Krieger
MomentCloudLegsOpponentOutLeg
Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?
Alice Dreger
PressureWonderWhySystemNatural
Abu Musab al-Suri is someone I got to know pretty well because he's a Syrian. Very bright guy, lived in London. He actually was the person who took myself and correspondent Peter Arnett and the cameraman, Peter Juvenal, to interview bin Laden for his first TV interview.
Peter Bergen
MyselfSomeonePersonKnowLondon
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