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Matthew Yglesias Quotes

The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

Matthew Yglesias

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 18, 1981

Topics

Focus Me Environmental Movement Used

If all you have is satire, your show will close. Even if all you have is comedy, your show will close. The hardest thing is not making people laugh: the hardest thing is building an emotional story. Any child can make a group of adults laugh.

Child People Building Story Laugh

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.

Me You Know Him Floating Heavy

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

Mary Harris Jones

Alone Powerful Achieve Against Get

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Hope Think Retirement Never Just

Chris Brown is a star. He's a genius. Anybody should want to work with him. He makes hits.

Work Genius Want Him Star Brown

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Today Great Woman War People World

Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.

Time You Back Skating Try Jacket

Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.

Good Myself Game Believe Never Call

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

Politics Mountains Night Driving

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Humor Moving Common Sense Dancing

I always try not to look too far ahead. I just look far enough to know where I'm going next.

Enough Look Know Ahead Try Always

At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.

Work History School Child Night Two

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