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Michael Dirda Quotes

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Death Man Artist Lose Island Us

Don't think in the morning. That's a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don't think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Work Morning Mistake People Start

I try to take roles that don't fall within the parameters of any Asian stereotype.

Fall Try Asian Within Take Roles

I enjoy juggling four or five different projects in the air and finding connections and disconnections between them.

Connections Finding Enjoy Air Four

When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

Angela Duckworth

Teacher People Team Drive Think You

Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

Simon Mainwaring

Job Thoughts Impact Media Opinions

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Money Fool You Russia Make Your

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.

People Me Serious Say First Like

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

Beautiful Art Short Handsome Flaws

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

God Vote Us Would Wanted He

I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.

Jason Mantzoukas

Faith Time Day Song Late Rock

There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

Dikembe Mutombo

Day Man People Wake Up You Dying

I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.

Home School Appreciation Generation

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