Jonathan Franzen Quotes

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Jonathan Franzen

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MeWritingYouNeedRealPleasure

Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

Jerry Saltz

PowerWallsAmazingCreatingGroup

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

John C. Maxwell

DisciplinePainPeopleWantPainful

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

Andrew Haigh

AloneBeing AloneWorldTryingFind

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

Jean Dujardin

Black And WhiteSimpleStoryBlack

A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time.

Sonia Sotomayor

TimeDoingPlanLongYouCareer

What did you have the potential to do? And if you came close to that, if you maximized that, then you were a success in God's eyes. So many of us do things that the world would say is successful, but we have so much more potential.

Tony Dungy

SuccessGodEyesWorldPotential

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

Robert Cailliau

MeSurpriseGoogleNumberStill

In software and many other online markets, even dominant firms face potential threats because of the low costs for competitors to enter those markets. Threats more easily emerge because of better or newer technologies leapfrogging older ones.

Marvin Ammori

FacePotentialBetterMoreSoftware

The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.

Louis de Broglie

SmallWaveElectricitySingleMyth

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

Dennis Miller

PeopleTryingReactionRadioOut

I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results.

Bruce Boxleitner

GreatTogetherHappyLookingEnjoy

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

BeginningYouMatterHumanStruggles

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