#ives

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#being #biggest #creative #creative ways #enjoy

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad thing #dangerous #get #good #good people

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#daily #daily lives #dependent #incapable #little

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#gives #hearts #man #men #money

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection. ↗

— Marc Newson

#emotional #familiar #feel #gives #important

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#administration #causes #cynicism #everything #his

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#courage #defended #freedom #history #i

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#among #bullet #clean #embedded #fiction

The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#enjoy #freedoms #lives #men #men and women

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#behaviors #bigger #coffee #consumption #driving