What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.
Maryanne Wolf
Recitation: by Male by Female
I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco.
Robert Morse
LifeLoveNormalThingsWatchLike
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette Winterson
WorkLoveWorldBookBodyHer
I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which was downtown, in the Lower East Side - to Midtown, where the theaters are. So I got to know New York, Midtown and south.
Stark Sands
WorkNew YorkNewKnowSideLived
I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.
Stephen Bayley
AestheticMeetThingsAntiquesLike
I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.
Stewart Butterfield
MeInternetDataEarlyOpenHippie
Monetary policy should never have been expected to shift economies to a sustainably higher growth trajectory by itself.
Michael Spence
GrowthNeverPolicyShiftBeen
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
Denis Dutton
GoodArtCultureYouDownMuseums
I'm from New Orleans, and we have a Mardi Gras group called the Chewbacchus. It's celebrating all things geeky: science fiction, fantasy, 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Men in Black,' 'Ghostbusters,' everything.
Claudia Gray
ScienceMenDoctorBlackNewGroup
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
Annie Besant
NaturePassionDarknessSilenceHer
I really appreciate that ability to gather signals of demand and signals of retention early on.
Sunil Nagaraj
AppreciateEarlyAbilityDemand
Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.
Peter Fonda
MeAttentionHotCenterBeingLike
I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.
Richard Russo
GoodCarePrettyRead
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