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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

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• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Baby

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!

  

  Warren Spector
  • School
  • New York
  • Stand

• Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Chance
  • Start
  • Flying

• I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Great
  • Money
  • Giving

• In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Better
  • End
  • Tools

• I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Help
  • Training

• In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Never
  • More
  • Over

• God helps those who fear Him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Worry
  • Down

• We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • People
  • Great
  • Problem

• I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Life
  • Music
  • Working

• Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Opinion

• When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated.

  

  H. L. Richardson
  • Real
  • Moral
  • Police

• Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Job
  • Earth
  • Balance

• When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.

  

  James MacArthur

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

  

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