Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.

Jeffrey Kluger

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LifeSchoolTalentStartEndRules

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Joe Namath

ExperienceLearnYouThroughThings

I'm a really big fan of facial hair.

Anderson East

HairBigBig FanFanFacialReally

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

Robert Metcalfe

MeUpScrewedTypical

You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,' they're saying, 'Acknowledge how these factors helped you move through life.' They're not saying apologize for it.

Roxane Gay

LifeManPeopleControlSayingYou

Consciousness is a disease.

Miguel de Unamuno

ConsciousnessDisease

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

SinPunishmentFirstConscience

I don't feel like God called me to be a gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer; he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

Josh Turner

GodMeFeelChristianCountryCall

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Christopher Lasch

BetterInformationDebateSeen

When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.'

Ansel Elgort

I AmMeMakeupWalkingCameraDone

I'd like to be a three-time Olympian.

Anne Donovan

LikeOlympian

England's just very cynical.

Winston Marshall

CynicalJustEnglandVery

I came to the destruction of volume by the use of the plane. This I accomplished by means of lines cutting the planes. But still, the plane remained too intact. So I came to making only lines and brought the colour within the lines. Now the only problem was to destroy these lines also through mutual oppositions.

Piet Mondrian

ProblemNowColourThroughWithin

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