When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that. Neil Peart Read Quote
I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do. Shari Arison Read Quote
I loved the variety of acting: turning your hand to different things and bringing whoever you were to it. There is something almost amateurish about it that appealed to me. Roger Allam Read Quote
The first time I ever went to Texas was on a bus with curtains draped over the windows. I just joined the military and got shipped off to basic training in San Antonio. JPEGMAFIA Read Quote
I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don’t get in the building anymore. Marcel Wanders Read Quote
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow ‘second class’ that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage. John Sentamu Read Quote
I’m doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California. Gray Davis Read Quote
Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it’s used. Jeffrey Kluger Read Quote