I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
Edith Piaf
Recitation: by Male by Female
Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
Jim Harrison
ShortLongOverThings
I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.
Jidenna
MotherColorAmericaWhiteNever
I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.
Andrew Davies
BestPeopleThinkBetterAmerican
Listening to Dr. King on the radio inspired me. Coming under the influence of Jim Lawson inspired me to think that I, too, could do something.
John Lewis
KingMeListeningInfluenceThink
I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.
Robert Kiyosaki
LivePromisesAdviceBadFalse
For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels.
Tommy Caldwell
LoveMeDreamFindEverythingBig
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Tom Stoppard
PeopleThinkKindWayRealTension
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
Mary Harris Jones
RailroadStrikeGoldenFarmersWest
The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended.
Joseph Brodsky
CareerNothingEverIntended
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
Douglas Coupland
WorldBelieveYouBadAbilityDeeds
I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.
Dee Snider
TimeMyselfPeopleMeMediaYou
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.
Clifford Geertz
PeopleMindReadingTwo PeopleHim
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