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I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

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• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Young
  • Ready
  • Benefits

• And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Medicine
  • Personal

• I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Like

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
  • Poetry

• The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Attention
  • First
  • Presidential

• I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Gold

• When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Man
  • Political
  • Building

• I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Government
  • Environment

• The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • People
  • Movie
  • Sports

• I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • History
  • Government
  • Enemy

• It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Better
  • Point
  • Controversy

• An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.'

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Life
  • Business
  • American

• Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Parents

• My father was an amazing man. No person is perfect, and no father-son relationship is perfect. He wanted me to live my life my way and never think about what he would have done or what he would have wanted to do.

  

  James Packer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I get referred to as the social media kid on set, but I don't let it bother me. I try not to.

  

  Kian Lawley

• When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Together
  • High
  • Age

• I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.

  

  Diplo
  • People

• He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Humanity
  • Greatness
  • Mysterious

• I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

  

  Ricky Jay
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