Michael Finkel Quotes

I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.

Michael Finkel

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I AmStoryYouSeeGoingRead

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

LifeDanceYouLookWhyUnderstand

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

BestManHappyFortunateHe

Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.

Michelle Dean

WritingFeminismTaskThankless

When the Heat were put together, there was talk of going undefeated. They didn't get off to a great start, but they found a way to win back-to-back championships.

Jason Kidd

GreatTogetherWinStartWayTalk

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.

Christian Marclay

TimePeopleMeCareGivingCreate

Every time I baked cookies for people as a kid, it made me so happy. But when I was in culinary school and working in fine-dining restaurants, that was not a thing.

Christina Tosi

TimeSchoolHappyPeopleMeCookies

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Colin Powell

PoliticsPurposeWarSupportPeople

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

Apolo Ohno

WinterCarBlackDrivingIceTrials

I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.

Anthony Pettis

MyselfFightPeoplePrideStandOut

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

Richard Harding Davis

RideWishBadHandI WishOne Thing

I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.

Mark Waters

LoveTimeMindChairYouI Can

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Guy Pearce

NatureHuman NatureExplorationHuman

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