When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
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It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I talked to one accountant, a very nice fellow who I would have been glad to have his family marry into mine.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag… — Chavela Vargas Copy Share Image
“[Leslie Bennett] You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everybody has something now. It's become very over-saturated, and it's hard to weed out what's good, what you should watch and what… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Early in my career as a domme, I both admired and feared becoming one of those career dommes. I saw, in myself,… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Normally what happens in a new presidency is the president has a big agenda, and Congress is full of people with human… — David Frum Copy Share Image
One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world,… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
I think bringing depth to characters means really needing to find out who this girl is, what is she passionate about, what… — Amy Smart Copy Share Image
Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
The most common way people could do time-travel would be a form of meditation in which you don't get caught up in… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King Copy Share Image
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a… — Jessica Cox Copy Share Image
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
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