Michael Specter Quotes

I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and the next - obsessed, I am sorry to admit, with the bicycles. Italy, after all, was a place where thousands of middle-aged men felt perfectly comfortable spending many hours a week in brightly colored spandex.

Michael Specter

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FamilyMenI AmSorryWeekYear

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

Jessie Mueller

GreatMoneyDanceBetterFeelYou

I tried to get us what I thought was the equivalent of a Romo with Quincy Carter in the third round.

Jerry Jones

ThoughtUsRoundGetThirdTried

People who have very devastating lives sometimes have the most wild, avant-garde humor. It's like when you've seen it all and been through it all, nothing is off-limits in a way.

Jenny Zhang

HumorPeopleYouSometimesNothing

I'd rather watch a character be good at something and be challenged - there's more to play in that.

Melissa McCarthy

GoodCharacterPlayMoreSomething

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

Stephen Kinzer

WarColdCold WarContextMiddle

When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

Steve Toltz

PeopleMeBookThinkingYouCopy

I'm a 30-year businessperson. I believe in American business. I believe in American ingenuity, and I believe in American innovation.

Tom Steyer

BusinessInnovationBelieveAmerican

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

Mikhail Bakunin

LifeFriendFindingLookEverything

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Dolly Parton

StartRoadWalkingYouLikePaving

In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.

Dennis L. McKiernan

EngineeringBetterEnjoyCareerBell

I signed on as the clown, and, by golly, I'll keep up my end of the bargain.

Chris Farley

EndUpClownKeepBargainSigned

I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.

Tiger Woods

QuitAwayI QuitBuddhismMeditating

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