'The Secret Agent,' Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich - in fact, a scheme by a secret police agent to stir up a government backlash - has acquired a kind of cult status as the classic novel for the post-9/11 age.
Tom Reiss
AgePoliceGovernmentKindRoyalUp
I'd always been fascinated by people who allow themselves to be so rude and irritated and foul-mouthed and hostile, but usually you can sense there's something vulnerable beneath them - a shield they use to protect that vulnerable side. Finally, when they expose that soft spot, it's kind of touching.
Paul Dano
PeopleYouKindProtectRudeAlways
Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
Mike McCready
BusinessRespectServiceDownKind
I dress kind of flashy.
Hunx
DressKindFlashy
There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.
George Brett
DayBaseballStartNewKindNothing
I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl.
Jennie Finch
GirlMyselfDietKindTryHard
I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.
Jason Sudeikis
ComedyKindNeverGuyBeen
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emil Cioran
SacrificeEnvyKindInsignificant
I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.
Jeff Tweedy
NatureThinkThinkingKindAnything
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.
Burt Rutan
InnovationNASABureaucracyKind
I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.
Stone Gossard
CoolKindButtWayUpAgainst
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
Terry Eagleton
LongYouKindLineSenseDifferent
The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.
Ruth Negga
JobMePerformanceTreatYouKind
I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.
Julie Brown
FunnyFaceThinkYouTragedyKind
Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.
Laurent Baheux
NatureLoveHouseKindWildlifeKid
Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can be compassionate, sensitive, soft, kind.
Jessica Chastain
HistoryWomanBelievePowerfulKind
I knew I could sing when I was about 7 years old. But since athletics was very much the forefront of my life, and I was kind of doing that a lot, I don't think anybody was caring or looking for me to be singing anything. So, yeah, I just kept it hidden from everyone.
Liv Warfield
LifeCaringMeSingingLookingKind
I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.
Georgia May Jagger
ThinkKindBeingDorkStillCooler
I'm a competitive son of a gun. I don't like losing. I want to be the best out there. I want to lead the troops. I want to kind of take the bull by the horns and be in control.
Carson Wentz
SonBestLosingControlGunKind
What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.
John Lithgow
LifeChildhoodChildMeTryingKind
I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.
David Duchovny
TryingKindProtectStanceAny
If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.
Amanda Peet
YouEarlyKindEverythingAwkward
There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.
Albert Finney
LightMyselfYourselfYouKnowKind
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
Tom Stoppard
ThinkPersonKindConservativeSame
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