Michael Chabon Quotes

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.

Michael Chabon

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I'm so impatient. I can't even stand waiting for a cab, and I'm always early for everything. In training, it means I want to run my personal best every session - but it takes time.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

TimeBestTrainingWaitingStand

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

Melody Beattie

FeelSomeoneNothingSomethingUs

In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is, when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself.

John P. Kotter

WorkYourselfSmartRisksMindRisk

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

John Hume

FamilyFatherMotherHistoryParents

I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating.

Robert Irvine

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They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

John Pearson

LifeHopeManLossEqualDays

NYU was my comfort zone.

Amy Heckerling

Comfort ZoneComfortZoneNYU

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

St. Jerome

WarSurviveFriendsSeventyDead

The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.

Steven Hatfill

LightDayJobMeFindNew Job

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

Michael T. Flynn

FearCountryPrinciplesSetBuilt

When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.

Judy Holliday

SimpleMeThoughtDawnAlways

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Brian Eno

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