It doesn’t matter how much money you’ve got, or how many connections, there’s always something you want that’s out of reach. Jenson Button Read Quote
My family taught me radical politics from the beginning, but I also learned to prove myself in elite institutions. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I’m not worthy – I couldn’t possibly, and so on and so forth. Hugh Laurie Read Quote
Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens. James Howard Kunstler Read Quote
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don’t have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal. Mark Helprin Read Quote
Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together. Ajay Naidu Read Quote
Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985. Edmund Phelps Read Quote
I was a serious competitive figure skater and still ice-skate as much as I can. Anyway, I once brought a date to the rink to have him experience what I was into. So all is going fine, and then – bam! – he bit it extremely hard! Skate time was over. His bruises were scary. I felt so bad. Christian Serratos Read Quote
The decision to write full-time meant I couldn’t afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn’t like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me. Andrea Hirata Read Quote
