Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

Jeffrey Kluger

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ExperiencePetShoppingSneakers

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

Johan Cruyff

ImportantStreetMoreThanCoaches

I have this theory that I hold on to, the theory that everything great in art and in life in general is jazz. It's just like all these things that just kind of seem to fall into place. You know, like mistakes that somehow turn into something beautiful.

Jerrod Carmichael

LifeBeautifulGreatArtMistakes

I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

Joe Torre

LoveGoodEyesCompetitionPeople

In the mid-'60s, I quit school and wandered across the country, hitchhiked back and forth a few times, and ended up in hippie times, in the street in Toronto, in Yorkville.

Michael Hogan

SchoolBackCountryQuitStreetUp

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

John Slattery

MenAdviceFeelMadNeverAnything

I have, by nature, an analytical mind.

Stephen Sondheim

NatureMindAnalytical

St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn't.

Simon Schama

TimeImpossibleChristianYouEarly

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

Simon Sinek

PeopleWorldPerformanceFamousYou

I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, 'I'm not even a 10th of this man.'

Ron White

SmileDaughterManFaceThoughtGuy

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

Mary Beard

MeSeeThroughMayAcademicsCrap

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

Colm Meaney

GoodTheatreThinkAdviceWorry

Every quarterback feels like he has something to prove.

Brock Osweiler

ProveQuarterbackSomethingLikeHe

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