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Michael Dirda Quotes

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

History Man More Read Than Once

I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

Jennifer Hudson

Feel Three Lived Different Four

It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.

Experience Results Admit Human Seem

The next wave of the social graph is empowering services like Airbnb and Lyft that give people the chance to have that physical interaction. People are more open to that because of Airbnb. Airbnb took couch surfing and took an additional step.

Step People Chance Wave More Open

In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have everything done - plastic surgery, teeth, everything. And then they have this moment where their family is brought in, and they are revealed. It's scary.

Family Moment Ugly People America

Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am.

Success I Am Effort People Opening

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

Path Back I Can Sometimes Possible

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

Funny People Find Serious Kind Try

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

People Black Hell White Out Scare

The thing I can say about all this stuff that's going on right now is that I appreciate it.

Appreciate I Can Now Say Right

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

Chris Hemsworth

Me Feel Situation Ready Dangerous

There's a deodorant I wear called Baux, from L'Occitane, that is super nostalgic because it reminds me of being in Greece in the summer. When I put it on, I'm immediately taken back to that feeling of having salty skin and hair from the ocean and the taste of fresh fish.

Antoni Porowski

Ocean Me Hair Fish Back Skin

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Fighting Done Worst Prohibition Who

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