When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
D. H. Lawrence
Recitation: by Male by Female
Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.
Jenny Zhang
AgeDeathParentsPeopleGeneration
I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.
Michael Douglas
AgeManThinkCareYouFind
If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants.
Alveda King
LifeLiveDeathKingSufferingCry
Loving Duran Duran has been one of the constants of my life, but I have no idea what they would sound like if the women in my life stopped loving them. I guess I'll never know. I could claim that Duran Duran taught me everything I know about women, but that's not exactly accurate: I learned it from listening to girls talk about Duran Duran.
Rob Sheffield
LifeWomenMeListeningMy Life
This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.
Ruth Ann Minner
MoneyGovernmentNumbersPlayGames
Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
Mary Leakey
NowSomethingReallyPut
If you think you know the consumer better than anyone, then you're in real trouble. So we take a close watch. You spend time in stores.
Mickey Drexler
TimeThinkBetterYouTroubleKnow
'The Act of Killing' helped catalyze this basic transformation in how the media talks about the past.
Joshua Oppenheimer
PastTransformationMediaActBasic
If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.
Jose Padilha
PeopleCapitalismThinkYouTrueUp
I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.
Joseph Kosinski
LifeMeComputersLovedDetails
We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.
Jonathan Stroud
GreatSocietyGrowYouQuestionUp
We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
Dick Cheney
WillFactIn Fact
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