Mary Gaitskill Quotes

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

Mary Gaitskill

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HomeTimeAdventureSocialSomething

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

Joe Montana

SportsTimeYourselfPeopleStart

My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.

Jessica Williams

WorldPlaceLondonHarry PotterTour

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

Andrae Crouch

SongKnowBloodNeverGoingBefore

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

Tom Cotton

FreedomBelieveReligious Freedom

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

Tom G. Palmer

BornRightIndividualObligationWho

I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.

Mary Ellen Mark

LoveDogsMexicoStreetsRescue

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

Loretta Lynn

MyselfKnowRetireWashDishes

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

Willie Geist

BlueYouYoungCostumeBlazerLike

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

Willie Stargell

GodBaseballMeGiftBornWithin

One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.

Lewis Black

SchoolYouPersonImportantWant

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Herbert A. Simon

PovertyAttentionInformationWealth

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

Glenn Miller

IdeasThoughtHellMusiciansDid

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