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If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.

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• I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Copy

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Effort
  • Person

• All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Sustainability

• I just love playing in major championships.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Playing
  • Major
  • Championships

• In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Great
  • Dad
  • More

• Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Always
  • Human
  • Meaning

• Repeating is harder than anything else.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Anything
  • Else
  • Repeating

• I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• The more far-out artists, the better.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Better
  • More
  • Artists

• My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Up
  • Different
  • Age

• I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Change
  • Play
  • Hair

• In ancient British times, the whole country belonged to tribes, and the tribes owned their several districts. At the head of each tribe was the chief.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Country
  • Head
  • Whole

• The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Different
  • High
  • Celebrity

• I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Women
  • Like

• Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?

  

  Amy Tan
  • True
  • Hope
  • Dream

• It is very hip to be an angel investor now. There used to be a dozen, two dozen guys at these demo days writing checks. Now there are hundreds.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Writing
  • Angel

• I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • School
  • Bad

• I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • Believe
  • Mom

• The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Time
  • Men
  • Children

• To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

  

  Plato
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Wise

• If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.

  

  Anohni