“Though the blame cannot be placed entirely on publishers, I do think a more diverse pool of editors would go a long way toward broadening the perspective. Our role is to work together to create books that act as wide-open doors - books that allow all children to walk through and feel safe enough to stay.” ThinkingWayFeelsChildrenLongBookEnoughTogetherWalksRolesDoorsPerspectiveSafeBlameWideWorking TogetherEditorsPoolDiversePublishersLong Way Author:Jerry Pinkney
“I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.” ThinkingKnowsSelfEasyTakenPoetComfortableSwimmingPoolRoutesProtectiveSwimming Pool Author:Sam Hamill
“I've always been a bit repelled by "Sunset Boulevard", which is wrong about almost everything it touches, whether it's fame, Hollywood, screenwriters, or old ladies. Sunset Boulevard would only make sense to me if it was about John Gilbert and the pool boy.” IfsBitsBoysFameHollywoodMake SenseSunsetPoolScreenwritersOld LadyBoulevardSunset Boulevard Author:William Monahan
“It's very important to older male homosexuality in Los Angeles to have a pool, so that cute boys will come to your house and swim around in the pool.” ImportantHouseBoysMalesCuteLos AngelesSwimPoolHomosexualityCute Boy Author:Guy Branum
“I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2. And now, you know, my dress is tight. So, I need it, too. I always need to remind myself: It's okay.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsMeanOkayDressesSizePoolVacationCocktailsSipping Author:Viola Davis
“I think the world is more perilous and America is basically undefended. For me the two touchstones after 9/11 for domestic security were our borders. Not for discriminatory reasons or to stop immigration, but simply to allow law enforcement to find out who is in our country without facing an undocumented pool of aliens that increases by the hour.” ThinkingWorldTwoCountryReasonAmericaLawHoursSecurityIncreaseImmigrationOur CountryAliensBordersPoolLaw EnforcementEnforcementTouchstones Author:Michael Scheuer
“You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.” FeelsLife IsSoundHalfChecksPoolVacationFestivalsBarcelonaMusic Festival Author:Hamilton Leithauser
“One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.” DoeStoriesArtistExampleInternetSittingBasesMy FavoriteRapMythSwimmingPoolBullshitFavorites ThingsMansionsSitting AroundSwimming PoolPerpetuatingRap Artist Author:DJ Shadow
“My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.” SchoolLife IsSocialAthleteFinishedPoolSocial LifeFinished School Author:Jessica-Jane Applegate
“As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook.” FirstsChildrenIdeasRememberGuyPresidentPartyWatchesPoolCrooksPool Party Author:Kelly Reichardt
“One of the reasons why I had such a horrible draft is that I hosted an eight-hour pool party before the draft. and so I wasn't quite in my perfect drafting form.” ReasonFormHoursPerfectPartyEightHorribleReason WhyPoolDraftingPool Party Author:Katie Aselton
“I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the pool baking; he was practically George Hamilton.” RememberGrewDadGrew UpMy DadBeachCaliforniaSouthernPoolBakingHamiltonSouthern California Author:C. J. Wilson
“The pool of illegal immigrants is like a qualified bunch of people. You don't have to do surveys. You don't have to interview them. You know they are ready-made Democrat voters. Not only that, they are readymade Democrat constituents.” PeopleKnowsMadeReadyDemocratBunchInterviewsImmigrantsIllegalVotersPoolQualifiedSurveysConstituentsIllegal Immigrants Author:Rush Limbaugh
“'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.” YearsIdeasSongBuiltYears AgoGuitarStartingSillyBackgroundsPoolSilly Things Author:Mark Hoppus
“I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses or elephant abuse. I don't want to be in the same industry with these people.” PeopleWantFeelsLittlesStupidIndustryAbuseTricksGuiltyPerformingSwimmingPoolElephantsCircusSwimming Pool Author:Sam Simon
“I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.” ThinkingMeanFeelingsSidesBlackInvolvedEastSwimmingPoolSwimming PoolAll BlackEast SideWilmington Author:Joe Biden
“I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.” KnowsWaySidesEastBarackSwimmingPoolSwimming PoolEast SideWilmington Author:Joe Biden
“Republicans also have to start to look at talent recruitment. Eight years ago Barack Obama was a no-name state senator. So I think we need to look outside the Beltway and start to look at a younger, more diverse pool of people and tap them to run for office instead of continuously tapping the same type of self-funder individual that Republicans seem to go after every time.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsLooksSelfStatesSeemsRunningNamesIndividualTalentTypeRepublicanOfficeYears AgoEightBarackPoolDiverseSenatorsTappingRecruitment Author:Andrea Tantaros
“Whether you're playing a mom on-screen or you're in a car pool lane driving your child to school in the morning, there are similarities that are undeniable. And once you're a mother, there are certain things that are instinct. You just have a better understanding of what it means to be a mother.” MeanChildrenSchoolMotherCertainUnderstandingMorningCarMomOur ChildrenInstinctScreensDrivingYour ChildrenPoolLanesSimilarity Author:Nia Long
“What really takes me back is when I'm walking around the Lower East Side, because we went to so many places [there] - the bakery, a mannequin store, all these factories with mice running around. That also is very visceral and takes me back. Pool halls, tattoo parlors, all kinds of stuff like that.” KindRunningStuffSidesWalkingEastStoresAll KindsHallsTake MePoolFactoriesTattooMiceVisceralParlorEast SideBakeriesTake Me Back Author:Jancee Dunn
“There seemed to be a sense about Sarah [Harmer] even back then.She was obviously a quick study. I remember going to the Harmer farmhouse and sitting around the pool, and Sarah had a guitar. Maybe I knew four chords, but she already knew five. After doing 600 gigs that week, I would sing with her in a ragged voice, and she had the voice of a bird.” RememberVoiceStudyFiveFourWeekBirdSittingGuitarPoolChordsGigsSitting AroundRagged Author:Gordon Downie
“I don't really sit in the sun I have a flagstone terrace surrounding the swimming pool and just carrying the script from the office to the living room gives me an instant suntan.” GivingRoomsSunOfficeGive MeScriptsInstantSwimmingPoolLiving RoomSwimming PoolTerrace Author:Lester Persky
“Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.” FallBreakBallsTablesPoolFalling OffPool Table Author:Leo Durocher
“Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent or hard work of the people within that pool, but it does narrow the field of stories that have been told, and of the creative ideas and perspectives out there.” PeopleDoeHas BeensIdeasHardStoriesOpportunityCreativeTalentFieldsColorHard WorkPerspectivePoolDiminishCreative Ideas Author:Joe Robert Cole
“Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.” WorldHumansStatesHelpingUnitedCompanyTechnologyUnited StatesInformationRevolutionResourcesScientistIndiaAccessPoolEfficientHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyOutsourcing Author:Manmohan Singh
“The only thing I can worry about is my swimming pool and keeping the leaves out of my swimming pool. I can't worry about what's happened to my neighbors.” I CanWorryHappenedNeighborSwimmingPoolSwimming Pool Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.” PeopleKnowsHardStatesHouseWhiteHard WorkWhite HousePoolSecretarySenators Author:Hillary Clinton
“When you go back to the above names it was a very much narrower situation - the alternatives were far fewer. Today there is much more competition for the 'hero stakes'! And if you think about all the alternatives you have today to spend your time on, the pool of heroes is much broader. It was very much less back then.” IfsThinkingTodayNamesSituationHeroCompetitionAlternativesStakesPoolFewer Author:Martin Sorrell
“We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.” PeopleGivingPoolBargaining Author:Barack Obama
“There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.” WaterWrittenOceanPool Author:Jane Alison
“Hillary Clinton has had a small but persistent lead since June - anywhere from 2 to 5 points. The stock markets and the election betting pools are predicting a Clinton win.” WinningElectionClintonPoolPersistentJuneBettingPredicting Author:Mara Liasson
“We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.” SchoolIndividualStepsCommitmentIncreaseMedicalPoolNursingStep UpKnowledgeableMedical SchoolNursing School Author:Michelle Obama
“The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.” KindMy FriendsProfitCollectivesPoolTapeCentreEquipmentSan FranciscoNon Profit Author:Pauline Oliveros
“[Donald] Trump ditched his press pool. That's just stupid and funny. Get over it. You know, [Bill] Clinton ditched his press pool. This is something presidents do sometimes. Don't make everything that Trump does a scandal because what'll happen is you'll diminish the real scandals, you know? You've got to get over the fact that you hate the person and rather focus on what you're trying to do.” KnowsTryingPersonsDoeRealSometimesFactsHappensHatePresidentFocusStupidTrumpBillsPressesClintonOver ItPoolGet OverDiminishScandal Author:Trevor Noah
“The people who steal cars, there's somebody there who is the master, who orders the cars, or just takes a car when it is brought? I am saying the law enforcement authorities have a pretty good idea about a lot of these kind of persons. We want it to pool all that knowledge and all those resources, so that they focus on these people.” PeopleWantKindPersonsIdeasLawOrderFocusCarMastersAuthorityResourcesStealingPoolGood IdeasLaw EnforcementEnforcement Author:Thabo Mbeki
“You can't go to insurance companies and say, you know what, we're not going to change anything having to do with the pool from which you - you draw your people. We're not going to do anything. But guess what, you can no longer allow for pre-existing conditions to disqualify somebody. And they go, oh. OK. How do I pay for that?” PeopleKnowsPayCompanyConditionsDrawsPoolInsurance Companies Author:Joe Biden
“As we work together and pool our resources, there's room for everyone to be successful.” TogetherRoomsSuccessfulResourcesBeing SuccessfulWorking TogetherPool Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?” WayYearsTwoDifferentCountrySometimesLeaderDemocracyIssuesTalentMediaConversationYears AgoDemocraticThese DaysIntensityPoolGenesEffectivenessOutstandingPartisans Author:Tony Blair
“My dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever. So I don't know how that got in my gene pool, but it did.” KnowsSchoolArtistKnow HowTeacherMomDadMy FamilyDoctorsMy DadMy MomJailPoolGenesPublic SchoolDoctor WhoSchool TeachersAdministrators Author:Dan Amboyer
“Health care is a right, not a privilege. In order for that right to be shared by everyone, it's very important that we eliminate free riders. Everybody should be participating. The bigger the pool, the lower the cost, the healthier the country.” ShouldImportantCountryCareOrderCostBiggerPrivilegeHealth CarePoolRidersParticipating Author:Nancy Pelosi
“We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when new genes meet and multiply, they create new contexts and new species. In a sense, the gene-pool of knowledge and of people connecting at all levels is literally spawning a kind of mind-pool of possibilities.” PeopleMindKindFormLevelsStudyMediaPossibilityEvolutionSpeciesEnormousPoolGenesConnectingNew MediaTransference Author:Jean Houston
“I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I feel like you lean in to tell a joke. You don't back up. Comedy lives in that area. I've played amphitheaters, big clubs, and pool halls, and the most fun rooms hold anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people. That intimacy is where comedy really lives.” PeopleFeelsPlayBigsAbleFunRoomsComedySweetLike YouJokesAreasTheaterClubsSpotsIntimacyHallsPool Author:Michael Che
“The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool; every generation has to learn it. And I'm not sure the recent generations have done that good a job of learning about it.” DoneConstitutionNot SurePool Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“In these trying economic times, I believe the White House should have a minimalist touch: open floor plan, glass and steel, throw pillows, and an infinity pool.” TryingBelieveHouseI BelieveEconomicPoolPillow Author:Paris Hilton
“That's part of the comedy, too, is we do have jokes throughout of hanging a lantern on the absurdity of the world. Like, when BoJack's flying over the neighborhood, you see some houses have swimming pools in the backyard, and what does that mean? Why would there be a swimming pool underwater? But we thought it was funny.” WorldMeanHouseComedyJokesFlyingNeighborhoodSwimmingPoolAbsurdityLanternsSwimming Pool Author:Raphael Bob-Waksberg
“I've tried for years to get Republicans to help us fix some of the mistakes that we made in the Affordable Care Act. There are things we can do to shore up the exchanges, to make those pools healthier, to bring down costs. I would like to see us work together on that.” HelpingCareTogetherMistakeRepublicanWorking TogetherPoolAffordable Author:Claire McCaskill
“Well, equity matters. I hope that most of us believe that we actually would all benefit from living in a more equitable society. If that's not happening, we're squandering human potential. We want to make the best television possible. We should be drawing on the entire available pool of storytellers and directors, and we should be expanding that pool and trying to hire the very, very, very best people. That's our job.” PeopleTryingBelievePoolStorytellerEquityHuman Potential Author:John Landgraf
“India is one of the youngest startup nations in the world, and so far, various technology startups have witnessed phenomenal growth. It's amazing how these startups are thriving solely based on domestic demands. It speaks volumes about India's economy and its rich talent pool.” WorldSpeakGrowthTechnologyEconomyRichTalentVariousPoolPhenomenal Author:Bhavin Turakhia
“When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.” ThinkingWritingDifferentKidsNightForgetBrainWake UpImpulseSwimmingPoolMentorMultipleWriting Process Author:Mark Duplass
“China is still our largest trading partner; however, complementarity between our economies is decreasing. We had the ability to organize a manufacturing process, and then we moved our manufacturing capability to China to make use of their labor pool.” AbilityEconomyLaborMovedPoolCapabilityOrganizeTrading Author:Tsai Ing-wen