Steve Rushin Quotes

You never forget your first felony. Mine was mail tampering. As a hoops-crazed 13-year-old, I rifled through a new neighbor's mailbox to confirm that the occupant of the split-level on 98 1/2 Street in Bloomington, Minn., really was former Gophers basketball star Flip Saunders.

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BasketballNever ForgetYouNeighbor

My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.

Jesmyn Ward

FamilyMotherBeachLawyerHusband

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

John Fund

VisionFocusLawThinkRule Of Law

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

Anita Baker

ProblemsGenerationHeroesIssues

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

Ann Dowd

Stand UpThinkStandYouSayUp

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

Tom Clancy

RealityFictionRoleSupposed

Klopp is a fantastic guy. I rate him as an extremely professional coach, perfectionist, and a winning mentality.

Roberto Firmino

WinningProfessionalHimCoachGuy

Though Mohyeldin's journalistic reputation continues to grow - born in Egypt, raised in Michigan, started as a gofer for NBC News, reared as a producer at CNN, first appeared on-camera for Al Jazeera in 2006 - his is hardly a household name, not in America at least.

Michael Paterniti

ReputationNameGrowAmericaBorn

The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.

Conrad Anker

MountainsPerformanceDriveLimits

I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.

Brandon Stanton

GoodBeautyBeautifulAppreciate

When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, 'You're signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!'

Scott Borchetta

GoodPeopleLuckGood LuckYouSaid

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

Mark Haddon

GoodChildrenWritingChairLegs

I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?

Mark Zupan

LifeLiveCarFunHurtYou

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