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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

Anton Chekhov

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• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Music
  • Me
  • Just

• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• 'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Why
  • History
  • Political

• I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Yourself
  • Jump

• She said'I'm young enoughI'm old enoughIn the city machineWhere industriesFill the fish full of mercury'

  

  Laura Nyro
  • She
  • City

• The language of Europe is translation.

  

  Umberto Eco

• He is and may be but oh! He is, he is, This foundling of the infected past, so bright, So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him No names. Dismiss him from your images. The hot of him is purest in the heart.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heart
  • May
  • Past

• I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write about first... it just sort of comes out like word vomit.

  

  Charli XCX

• Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • World
  • War

• Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.

  

  Danny Masterson
  • Fashion

• I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• All those guys wanna be us. All the fighters wanna be in professional wrestling; I don't care what they say.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Professional
  • Wrestling

• I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Art
  • Mom
  • Summer

• The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will see what is our level to achieve our battles.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • People
  • Game
  • City

• Will I be a success? I don't know.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Success

• On its face, Donald Trump's hateful musings about women and his boastful claims of sexual dominance should be reason alone to drive him from polite society and certainly to blockade him from the West Wing. Yet somehow, his misogyny has instead propelled his campaign to the brink of the Republican nomination.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Women
  • Society
  • Alone

• Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Business
  • Church

• Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Giving
  • Morning
  • Wise

• Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Money
  • Hustle

• If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • People
  • Time
  • Boy

• Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Wolf