Michelle Dean Quotes

The 'World Wide Web', as people quaintly called the Internet in 1996, was more or less made up of text. There was no YouTube. There was no Facebook. There was, however, Usenet, a loose and difficult-to-navigate assortment of message boards.

Michelle Dean

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PeopleWorldInternetMoreYouTube

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.

Jim Lehrer

PeopleGoWantPlacesWhereBells

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

Jessie Mueller

DayTeamSayingAmericanDoingBack

Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.

John Katzman

GoodQualitySchoolEnoughYouWill

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

John Lee Hooker

NameYouCheatKnewAnywaySince

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Jean Kerr

LoveMarriageHomeTimeManWindow

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

JusticeDeathCryLivingDutyDead

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

Dean Karnazes

WorthGoalAchievingRiskElement

Staying grounded, eating healthy, doing yoga, staying out of the sun to protect my skin - I think that the daily decisions we make to protect our bodies are the best ways we can care for them.

Christen Press

DailyBestSunEatingThinkCare

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.

Arlo Guthrie

ArtCulturePeopleTalkingYouOver

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

Antonin Scalia

BusinessLawyerMysteryIronyOut

Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I've met as a result of 'Downton Abbey.'

Lesley Nicol

MeResultCelebrityComingExciting

Change can be uncomfortable and scary. But I believe change exists to teach us to appreciate and enjoy the right now.

Gretchen Bleiler

ChangeBelieveAppreciateEnjoyNow

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