A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head,… — Johnny Knoxville Copy Share Image
I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case:… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The White House and the media need one another in order to be successful in their jobs. The White House depends on… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I could take the greatest deal-makers of all time and they've always had something that didn't quite work out. You never want… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Of course, technology is very important now. It's there, its available. It's there to be use however you see fit. You can… — Abderrahmane Sissako Copy Share Image
Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued… — S. E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You can drive.” When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player… — Neelie Kroes Copy Share Image
The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
People who enjoy the privileges of success must use these privileges to benefit those who do not have them. These privileges constitute… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was… — Michel Patini Copy Share Image
I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Innovation often starts with the ordinary. They simply took what was "normal", and added a twist. They added an innovation. The innovation… — Dave Morin Copy Share Image
Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
For me, every human is a little bit an exaggerated version of a real human - in most cases, they are versions… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image