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Depression starts slow.

Ned Vizzini

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• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Religious

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • End
  • Fight
  • Train

• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Man
  • Criticism
  • Conservative

• Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Children
  • Father
  • Risk

• I just am who I am.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Black

• Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

  

  Frank Leahy
  • Pain

• You can't value others until you value yourself.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Value

• We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • Addiction

• Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.

  

  Doris Eaton Travis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

  

  Pete Sessions
  • People
  • Sick

• LinkedIn is the Netscape of its era.

  

  Frank Quattrone

• This is what the media does with women. You try to divide and conquer women so you can intimidate and victimise them. This is why they don't make movies where a lot of women get to be on set together. It's about dividing.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Women
  • Why
  • Together

• Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.

  

  James Watkins
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• What was really great with Eleanor Roosevelt - I mean, of course, we all have this stereotypical, really satirical almost, version of how she speaks. What was really interesting to me was I found various radio and TV appearances of hers, but there was one talk show that I saw her on; she was the only woman, it was all men. They were talking about policy - I think it was after she was First Lady. I think it was more in the U.N. days.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Great
  • Men
  • Thinking

• You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Time
  • True
  • Culture

• Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Up
  • Money
  • Running

• Depression starts slow.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Depression