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Jon Krakauer Quotes

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 12, 1954

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Romantic Death War Random Nothing

The trick of Afrobeats is it doesn't just move your upper body, it moves your hips as well, and I think that's what people have been missing in popular music for a while. I think that's what people need around the world.

Music People World Think Body Need

When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.

Present Camera I Can Too Much Forget

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.

Age Time Myself Stress Intelligence

Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Relationship Great Value Win Help

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

Time Me America Late Feelings Side

In the summer of 2007, Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, convened a meeting in Chicago for the first league-wide concussion summit. All thirty-two teams were ordered to send doctors and trainers to the meeting.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Meeting Summer New Chicago First

If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.

Tea Me Friends Feeling Go Afternoon

An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It was the world's first popular computer. And it was a device that, in fact, is a model of the sky.

Today Time Day Sky World Unknown

I did so many open mics. I would write jokes on Twitter constantly, and then slowly, over time, open mics turned into shows. If you can get a joke to work at an open mic, it's a good joke.

Work Good Time You Write Jokes

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Architecture Hotel Room Little Here

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

I Am Me Person Kind Traditions Just

I look really good in a scuba suit.

Good Look Suit Really Scuba

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