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I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.
Written by Kevin Young
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.
Written by Steven Pinker
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
I'm a calm person who wants to talk about things and think things through.
Written by Shiloh Fernandez
Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.
Written by Tim Scott
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
Written by Thomas Ken
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
Written by John Henrik Clarke
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
Written by E. O. Wilson
I believe that body and spirit are not really separate, though it often seems that way. I believe that redemption is never impossible and always equivocal. But I guess that I just don't know.
Written by Ellen Willis
Girls are hard. They're very hard. I love my son. I hear the relationship between mommy and son is the best. Who knows? My husband wants a girl, he really does.
Written by Tia Mowry
Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.
Written by Chuck Zito
Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.
Written by David Byrne
I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.
Written by John Schlesinger
Giving back to the communities and institutions that helped us achieve success is a value we share and a privilege we embrace.
Written by Dinesh Paliwal
Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.
Written by Anthony Anderson
I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.
Written by David Sanborn
I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.
Written by Kim Edwards
I've got to pick my fights at the right time.
Written by Bruce Rauner
Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
Written by George Foreman
Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.
Written by Rush Limbaugh
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
Written by Ama Ata Aidoo
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Written by Natasha Trethewey
The world economy is growing so fast.
Written by Shervin Pishevar
If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
Written by Larry Smith
My personal style at this point in my life is more audio; it's more driven on less visual and more musicality. But because of my upbringing, my fabulous mentors and teachers that I've had throughout my dance journey or career, I also possess a style that is of the past. It was just a matter of me reaching back.
Written by Savion Glover
I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.
Written by Wesley Snipes
My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.
Written by Christopher Walken
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
Written by Blaise Pascal
The beauty of letting marginalized people tell their own stories is it isn't only the right thing to do socially, but it's also the right thing to do financially. People love the truth, and people like to spend money on the truth.
Written by Justin Tranter
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Written by Russell Baker

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