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Michael Shermer Quotes

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

Michael Shermer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
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Birth: September 8, 1954

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Thinking Seeing Believing Rational

Instead of fantasizing about food, I'm fantasizing about the WWE championship.

Food Championship WWE About Instead

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

Feeling Alive Try Capture Awake

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

People Motherhood Think You Asking

I have a mug that actually verifies that I'm the world's best dad. That's a mug. That's not me talking. You can't just buy those.

Stephen Colbert

Best Me World Talking You Buy

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Life Relationship You Artist Strange

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

Work Good Good Work You Important

No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.

Positive Me Year Christmas Matter

I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

Home Darkness Me Writing Someone

As a Democrat from Illinois, as a member of Congress who believes in and admires President Obama, it genuinely pains me to say that the facts show that this president has done no more to solve our immigration crisis than George W. Bush.

Me Facts Immigration Done Say More

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

Jonathan Kellerman

Collaboration Key New Stretch Much

In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill.

World Mentally Convinced 1960s Ill

There is no way I could have played fourteen years in the NFL if I didn't work my butt off on the practice field perfecting my technique or spend hours upon hours in the film room studying defenses.

Work Practice Butt Way Studying Off

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