Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks.… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
What I love about the TED is that it's not, 'Hey, take this check and enjoy.' It's, 'Do something with this, and… — JR Copy Share Image
“Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars,… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom.… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway?… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book,… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. "I suppose I should know who Pelops was?" "He was a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. “Oh Evelyn, look!… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense:… — Jay Nordlinger Copy Share Image
The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge… — Sjon Copy Share Image
Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
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