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• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human Nature

• The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Cold
  • Mud

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Different
  • Success
  • Man

• I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

  

  Feist
  • Time
  • Studios
  • Proper

• My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

  

  Edie Falco
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Movies

• When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Different
  • Control

• In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Black
  • Right
  • Africa

• Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Heart
  • Weird
  • Sad

• I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Years
  • Old
  • Known

• Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

  

  Major Owens
  • Important
  • Education
  • Technology

• Test cricket is for batsmen, not bowlers. Bowlers are like slaves,' Kapil Dev.

  

  Kapil Dev

• If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• I was a whole new human being, he said of this transformation. I liked people, they liked me. It was like an exorcism, kicking the devil outta me!

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • Devil
  • Transformation

• To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• I can't do it, I can't conceive You're everything you're trying to make me believe 'Cause this show is too well designed Too well to be held with only me in mind And how, how am I different? How, how am I different?

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Mind

• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Community

• Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People
  • Time

• THE HE-ANCIENT: When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truthSTREPHON: Yes; and take all the fun out of it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Search

• They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Knowledge
  • Access
  • Wikipedia