I want young people to look at me and go, ‘Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.’ I want to make the life of the mind sexy. Michael Eric Dyson Read Quote
I’ve got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there’s a parents’ night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that. Victoria Beckham Read Quote
I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it’s like to feel deceived. You don’t have to have run into a con artist to feel like you’ve been deceived by someone. Inbar Lavi Read Quote
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Archimedes Read Quote
The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it’s a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it’s almost never true. Ben Mendelsohn Read Quote
I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I’ve known Walter for 21 years. Richard Gough Read Quote
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman’s intelligence was a man’s deception. Stacy Schiff Read Quote
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and – it often seems – social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian. Will Self Read Quote
