Jonathan Franzen Quotes

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.

Jonathan Franzen

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There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.

John M. Grunsfeld

LifeSciencePerspectiveMy LifeGet

I can prove my worth and hopefully get a drive in LMP1 with a constructor in the future.

Jean-Eric Vergne

FutureDriveWorthI CanProveGet

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

Michael Imperioli

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A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

Amanda Schull

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Sometimes a mentor has to be reminded of the principles he has tried to instill in others.

Stephen Henderson

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What I really want to happen is for all companies to become eco - especially fast fashion companies.

Amber Valletta

FashionFastWantBecomeHappen

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

Stacy Keach

PeopleInterestingQuestionsHeroes

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Toni Morrison

BlackBecauseStillConstantDread

I've had several broken bones and sprains throughout my career, but the one that really changed things was when I wrecked in 2008 during a Pro Snocross competition. I was thrown from my machine and landed on my left leg and caused a 180 degree hyperextension of my knee joint.

Mike Schultz

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All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

Johnny Depp

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Whether somebody think badly of me, whether somebody don't feel that I should be doing this or I should be doing that way, I don't really care. Whether they think that my fatigue is being laid, legs are skinny, I don't care.

Deontay Wilder

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