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John Seabrook Quotes

In the Twenties and Thirties, refrigerated railcars allowed growers to transport apples over great distances, and, thanks to cold-storage warehouses, wholesalers and retailers could keep them for long periods of time.

John Seabrook

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

Great Time Long Over Thanks Apples

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

Jim Jarmusch

Think Sex Down Important Always

In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.

Jerry Jeff Walker

Thought Golf Play Years Bourgeois

I think Lena Dunham, the public figure, is - I hate the word 'brand,' but I'm going to use it - it's such a brand that is so tethered to her public persona and to 'Girls', but also this progressive politics that she's been more vocal about.

Jenny Zhang

Hate Politics Think Brand More She

I am very aware that I'm one of the luckiest people who ever lived.

Matt Cohler

I Am People Lived Aware Who Very

I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason.

Michael Harney

Faith True Wild First Kid Line

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

Steven Biko

Attitude Reflection Black Matter

Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though it was background and a comfort, and I think that is very dangerous.

Simon Rattle

Walls People Think House Comfort

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Simone Weil

Friends Meeting Separation Two Far

I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby.

Tracey Emin

Time Hobby Long Long Time Been Even

I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.

MaryJanice Davidson

Beautiful Compassion Me Seize Out

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Michel de Montaigne

Myself Physics More Study Than Any

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

Moby

Music Growing Up Person Growing Up