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All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

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• I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Nice

• So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Rock
  • Piano
  • Rock And Roll

• I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Want
  • Hill

• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • Community
  • Respect

• The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Science

• I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Work
  • Always
  • Film

• Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Proud
  • Tradition
  • Self-Esteem

• Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Purpose
  • Hollywood
  • Soup

• In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Life
  • Man
  • Day

• I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Thought
  • See
  • Now

• Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Years

• Little Zac had it easy – but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Life
  • Business
  • Think

• 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Women
  • Day
  • End

• I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Movie

• Let me say something else about this generation. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Pretty
  • Military

• The news had stirred him strangely. He listened for bulletins on the radio, which he had seldom turned on after finding that its basic function was advertising things for sale.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.

  

  Karl Marx

• Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • World

• We should like to see this Assembly shake itself out of complacency and move forward. We should like to see the committees begin their work and not stop at the first confrontation. Imperialism wishes to convert this meeting into a pointless oratorical tournament, instead of solving the grave problems of the world. We must prevent their doing so.

  

  Che Guevara
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why I moved to New York two years ago.

  

  Rinko Kikuchi
  • American
  • Working
  • Realized

• Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

  

  Ellen Goodman
  • Powerful
  • Deep

• The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

  

  Charles Chilton Moore
  • Lying
  • Slavery
  • Atheism

• I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

  

  Michael McMillian
  • Writing
  • Killing
  • Comic

• All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

  

  Delmore Schwartz