Michael Shermer Quotes

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Michael Shermer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
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  • Birth: September 8, 1954

Topics

ExperiencePeopleIncompetenceFired

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

John Burns

MindMeSmokePersonThreeDrink

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ManWishesAnythingHappensKnows

I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.

Max Baucus

OpportunityBelieveProudAmericaUs

I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.

Jeffrey Tambor

WorkGreatYouActingLostKnow

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

WorldPersonSometimesMissingWhole

I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

Amanda Righetti

WorkChangeGreatTimeJobYourself

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Stendhal

MenWomanYouthLovedHerSomething

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

Steven Wright

BusinessTimePeopleLaughSerious

When I was 13, I was saying that I wanted to be signed to a label. I was begging my dad to get me signed with somebody.

Sofia Richie

MeSayingBeggingGetSomebodyDad

In college, that was when I felt that acting is the one I really wanted because I got to be my true self; this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Troian Bellisario

LifeCollegeRestSelfMy LifeTrue

I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.

Tsai Ing-wen

BusinessTogetherGovernmentPeople

I find it hard to write in the first person.

Michiko Kakutani

FindPersonWriteFirstHard

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