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Michael Hastings Quotes

In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.

Michael Hastings

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 6, 1980

Topics

Alone Hotel Late News Living Twice

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

John C. Reilly

Good People You Say Improv Going

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.

John Burroughs

Plants Birds Landscape You Look

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

Jerry Rice

Me Small Game Now Boy Little

There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.

John David Washington

Football Name My Own More Out Own

I was very excited to do 'The Witches.' It was with one of my favorite directors, Nick Roeg, and I loved his work from 'Don't Look Now' and 'Eureka.' So I was very excited to work with him. The story was a very subversive fairy tale by Roald Dahl, and a fantastic part.

Anjelica Huston

Work Story Loved Fairy Tale Look

Where were they when the Russians went down?

Stacy Keach

Down Where Russians Were

You're not hearing people like Madeleine Albright argue that the budget of the State Department should be as large as the Defense Department. The Pentagon is going to be larger by its nature. It's going to have more people.

Ronan Farrow

Nature People Budget You More Going

Energy is one topic on which different countries can work together collaboratively. If we can all produce energy from an element that's available in abundance on our planet, that would be a good thing, but we have to learn how to produce energy in large quantities, cheaply, efficiently and without detriment to the environment.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Work Good Together Energy Learn

When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem - they no longer work.

Jason Fried

Work Meetings Problem Debate First

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Joseph Brodsky

Journey Point Poet Departure Arrival

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

Joko Beck

Life Nature Time Looking Puzzle

A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.

Dorothy Hamill

Depression People World Impossible