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“I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.”

Persons Long Bigs Middle Figures Hair Bottom Legs Flats Bells Flattering Wigs Booty

Author:Sarah Paulson

“In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.”

Persons School Faces Middle Worst Adults Bigger Damn Destructive Insecure Middle School Worst Times Slapping Bigger Person

Author:Nikki Reed

“I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.”

Thinking Writing Persons Art Ends Bigs Artist Pay Novel Middle Consequence Resources Harder Middle Aged

Author:Dana Spiotta

“Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count the miles." As I said, the virtues are at the midpoint between excess and laxness. That is why it is written, "Do not turn to the right or the left" (Prov 4:27) but travel on the "royal way" (Num. 20:17). Saint Basil also says, "The person who does not allow his thoughts to incline towards excess or deprivation but directs it to the midpoint, that of virtue, is upright in heart."”

Way Heart Persons Doe Said Truth Turns Left Virtue Written Middle Saint Miles Excess Royal Elders Deprivation Incline Basil

Author:Dorotheus of Gaza

“We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.”

People Want Persons Care Young Energy Grows Class Careers Economy Cutting Middle Policy College Taxes Health Care Lifts Middle Class Wages Tax Cuts New Energy

Author:Barack Obama

“The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.”

Persons Country Problem Running Form Energy Animal Middle Humorous Scientist Bills Cancer Oil Enormous Department Sand Etc Cows Rats Eastern Laboratory Dinosaurs Raccoons Bulldozers

Author:Dave Barry

“In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.”

“By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.”

Ifs Persons Middle Rocks Radio Nostalgia Upset Classic Stations Sixty Eighty Middle Aged Radio Stations Classic Rock

Book:Turning 40

Source: Turning 40

“I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .”

Thinking Persons Moments Middle Serious Auditions

Author:Carla Gugino

“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third position or middle ground is possible. A person can either believe or not believe in a God. Therefore, our previous definition of atheism has made an impossibility out of the common usage of agnosticism to mean "neither affirming nor denying a belief in God."”

Source: An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism

“If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.”

Ifs Persons Age Middle Capitalism Resources Educated Posts Capitalist Middle Ages Knights Bourgeois Embodiment Educated Person

Author:Peter Drucker

“I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.”

Persons Together House Heaven Views Middle Fairs Internals Middle Class Spouse Revenue Brackets

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.”

People Persons Whole Jobs Actors Magic Middle Achieve Directors Complexes Bunch Tone Bubbles Consistency Costumes Contributing Cinematographers Nexus

Author:Edward Norton

“Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.”

Mean Persons Country Sometimes Middle Breaths Police Fingers Forests Despite Village Mum Pigs Sandwiches Small Villages Fondling

Book:Whispers Under Ground

Source: Whispers Under Ground

“Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean Persons Bits Interesting Middle Evolve Middle Aged

Author:Dawn French

“I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?”

Persons School Middle Middle School Yearbook

Author:Cecily Strong

“I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.”

Persons Dies Middle Flower Huge Pure Bird Guilt Hated Paradise Expensive Fades Arrangements Hideous Never Fade

Author:Maeve Binchy

“People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.”

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity

“The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.”

Persons Life Is Goal Class Middle Achievement Projects Privilege Complicated Middle Class Stable Bourgeois Refined Life Goal Uncomplicated Goals And Achievement

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.”

Men Way Persons Real Whole Seems Young Certain Easy Our Lives Middle Leaving Staying Being Real Discovering Complacency Middle Aged

Author:Conor McPherson

“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.”

Knows Feels Mind Looks Persons Said States Night Father White Taken Middle Grew Grew Up South Terrorism Usa Segregation Middle Of The Night Obeying Frame Of Mind

Author:Alice Walker

“F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.”

Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

“When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.”

People Persons Problem Seems Beautiful Simple Principles Middle Keys Solutions Come Up Complicated Complexity Really Great Elegant Really Beautiful Great Person Convoluted

Author:Steve Jobs

“Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way May Persons Religion Middle Witty Accommodate Lukewarm Middle Way

Book:The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay

Source: The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay

“One thing I definitely experienced up here (New York), that maybe I have to sort of cop to feeling defensive about, is since the election, people in my cohort, who are sensitive to portrayals of people in the movie as classist, have had no problem coming up with those sorts of [middle-American] stereotypes about a phantom real person they can blame for re-electing George Bush.”

People Persons Real Feelings Problem One Thing Middle New York Election Blame Sensitive Cop Stereotype No Problem Phantoms Real Person Portrayal

Author:Philip Morrison

“I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.”

“My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.”

People Needs Kind Persons Feelings Names Felt Middle Special Talent Particular Perseverance Worthy Driving Core Inferiors Living My Life Always Believe Something Special

Author:Rita Moreno

“The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.”

People Persons Middle Century Suits Composer Runway Jogging Turds

Author:Frank Zappa

“I'm not a political person. I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground, but it never seems to come to the middle ground and it's very frustrating watching it and seemingly we're not moving forward.”

Thinking Persons Two Seems Moving Political Sides Middle Concepts Moving Forward Both Sides Frustrating Two Sides Middle Ground

Author:David Lynch

“Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.”

Persons Doe Water Class Middle Flow Stones Rounds Prosperity Middle Class Cash Smooth

Author:Neal Stephenson

“We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.”

“Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become.”

Persons Poor Class Rich Middle Middle Class Up To You Rich Person

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where everything will change, is always the hardest part, because it can very easily be too constructed, too artificial.”

Writing Persons Middle Hardest Artificial

Author:Tobias Lindholm

“The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.”

Giving Persons Middle Taxes Lawyer Income Tails Income Tax Accountants Certified Public Accountant

Author:W. C. Fields

“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.”

People Persons Said Enough Religious Class Middle Mines Philosopher Educated Luxury Middle Class Skepticism Secular Rapture Syphilis German Philosopher

Book:Timequake

Source: Timequake

“As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.”

Wells May Persons Long Has Beens Character Dream School Earth Reading Goal Childhood Middle Events Honesty College Ideals Philosopher Annoyed Narnia Grad Middle Earth Grad School

Author:N.D. Wilson

“In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.”

Persons Growth Path Middle Hot Forests Giants Thick Hog Narrow Path Hot Days Rare Person

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.”

Persons Made Wanted Lasts Loses Effort Class Middle Ordinary Middle Class Accents Cambridge Remnants Great Effort Cockneys

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.”

Way Feels Should Persons Middle Sitting Nervous Restaurants Judged Being Judged Misconstrued

Author:Rachel Hunter

“Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.”

Firsts Mean Persons Doe Ends Stories Guy Courses Happened Middle Scene Innovation Surprise Evolve First Person Narrators Beginning Middle And End

Author:T.C. Boyle

“I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.”

Thinking Persons Made Moving Song White Class Middle Grew Grew Up Commitment Privilege Nostalgia Despite Relate Middle Class Ache Keep Moving Upper Middle Class

Author:Erin McKeown

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