I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow
Recitation: by Male by Female
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
Jill Lepore
GoodBadNewsEveryoneBad News
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
Jerry Saltz
HateYouGroupEventsSuccession
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
Robert Musil
ManValueDirectionPossibilitiesGo
If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.
Stefan Edberg
WinningChanceWantTopOutGoing
When I was younger, I always assumed that when I grew up, I would be living in the country, and my kids would be going to a state school. But that's not how things have turned out. I can't see myself being able to leave London.
Stella McCartney
MyselfSchoolCountryLivingLondon
If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.
Robert De Niro
ChairLongComfortableRightTake
People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.
Russell Brand
WomenMenPeopleMeYouGay
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
Michelangelo
LiveAlonePaintCannotPressures
Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.
Liz Vassey
PictureYouWonderPlaceFirstStay
When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What is the house that these characters would want to live in?' I wanted to paint a picture and color scheme that I could work around. I gently apply different daubs to see what fits to match the color I have in mind with these characters.
Dev Hynes
WorkLiveMyselfMindColorThought
I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.
Dorothy Hodgkin
LifeProblemsMy LifeEasyAnalysis
I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.
Chevy Stevens
LightHappyDarkPersonTryBreak
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