Michael Dirda Quotes

A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.

Michael Dirda

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FamilyLiveJobEnoughExercise

The Blue Dogs are all Democrats; they are. And I'll tell you, in terms of wearing the Democratic label, I think they're the true Democrats, because that label usually hurts them when they're running for election.

Jim Matheson

BlueThinkYouElectionTrueDogs

I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

Joe Jamail

TimeAwardFeelingPersonFirst Time

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

Ang Lee

LifeThinkDarkSpiritWithout

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

Stephen Kinzer

IndependentDevelopmentMexicoRural

I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.

Simon Schama

FoodIdentityMeAlwaysBigUsed

When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.

Tony McCoy

RideChampionChanceYouDreamGoal

I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when I began to write and first published, I couldn't call myself a writer.

Rupi Kaur

MyselfMindMeDreamPossibleFirst

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

Mary Karr

SixtyPoemBehindEveryDrafts

It's easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.

Janet Varney

LifeFunnyBetterSillyEasyPerson

Analysts estimate that emerging markets are expected to drive 90 percent of the world's pharmaceutical market growth, and differentiated products will be important to this growth.

Dilip Shanghvi

GrowthWorldDriveImportantWill

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.

Dick Dale

LifeEnergyMy LifeBodyNervous

I think I might be one of the only people in America, or at least the only person I know, who saw both 'The Dark Knight' and 'Mamma Mia!' on their shared opening weekend.

Diablo Cody

PeopleThinkAmericaWeekendDark

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