Meghan Daum Quotes

The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.

Meghan Daum

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Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.

John Cleese

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It's really not fun to have seen a movie that you want to talk about, and you can't find anyone else who's seen it.

Anita Elberse

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I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keaton. I just love what he did. I love that mug.

Jeffrey Tambor

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If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path or the Muslim path. And I don't mind saying that I don't invalidate any of those paths.

John Shelby Spong

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Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.

Mary Roach

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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.

Mitski

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I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

Luke Bryan

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I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.

Liz Williams

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I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.

Josh Brolin

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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Joseph Conrad

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Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

Jonathan Franklin

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I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Dick Cavett

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