I can have someone tell me to do stuff all the time every day, and if I don’t want to do it, I ain’t gonna do it. Dustin Johnson Read Quote
For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience. Lionel Barber Read Quote
I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind. Lady Gaga Read Quote
After ‘Place Beyond the Pines,’ honestly, I was sick of myself. Sick of my own ideas. I wanted to do an adaptation, but everything I’d been reading, I just didn’t understand it. Derek Cianfrance Read Quote
I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can’t stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes. Jackie Earle Haley Read Quote
As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory. Ben Sasse Read Quote
I was influenced by many, many different people in my student years, and I was always, I guess, immersed in a Navy environment, and so, obviously, that had a big impact when I decided what I wanted to do was go and be a Navy pilot. I was very familiar with the Navy community and felt very comfortable with it. Alan G. Poindexter Read Quote
I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped. I didn’t do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there. Katherine Johnson Read Quote
A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved India. The fact that the common Indian is a thinker is vital. Gulzar Read Quote
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was ‘D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths.’ Robin Sloan Read Quote
