Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
Barbara Amiel
Recitation: by Male by Female
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
Jeremy Clarkson
LifeDisappointmentAmbitionYou
Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
Ameen Rihani
PurposeValueAlwaysWithoutWorking
Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.
Steve Prefontaine
ConfidenceFunMeSlowThingsKids
I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.
Rita Ora
MyselfHotelFancyDaysStayPaid
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot
PoliticsManRiverDirtyUpWho
I'm really scared of clowns, and for a while, I was scared to perform and sing in front of a crowd. Also, I'm not a big scary movie guy. They stay with me for a while.
Luke Benward
MeScaryScaredBigGuyStay
I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.
Jon Tester
MeMomRememberGrindThreeHand
When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.
Douglas Hodge
SongYouFeelingDownNothingWrite
If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters. But if it's meant to be real life, you want there to be some reflection of your experience and have something you can hook into.
Clare-Hope Ashitey
LifeReflectionExperienceFairy Tale
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I've since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script.
Brian Helgeland
WorkBookLovedYouTrueOriginal
I wish I could come home to a life that looks like a TV show. I wish I could see my television family waiting for me, where no one fights and no one screams, no one lies and no one leaves.
Art Alexakis
LifeFamilyHomeWaitingMeWish
It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
Wilt Chamberlain
ChallengeMeHelpTeammates
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