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Clive Thompson Quotes

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1968

Topics

Birthday Baseball Space You New Out

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

John Drinkwater

Life Perfect Poet Word He Selection

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.

Medical Up System Incentive Tests

People are scared of the unknown.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

People Unknown Scared

The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.

Family Friends And Family Me Friends

I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations.

Alyson Hannigan

Good Time Fun Me Good Times Doing

I've made some stupid decisions, so I have to be careful. I once said 'no' to a film that was a number-one hit. And 'Date Movie' had the smallest budget of any movie I'd been in, and it went to the top of the box office.

Stupid Decisions Budget Said Office

I'm a body builder, so we do a lot of stuff on repetition.

Body Repetition Stuff Builder Lot

Education is a beautiful, liberating thing, but I think that tying in education and status, and the need to do well at every cost, is toxic.

Education Beautiful Think Need Cost

In the NBA, there's always a guy who is only around because he can jump. He doesn't have a clue about the fundamentals. I learn more from the WNBA. They know how to dribble, how to pivot, how to use the shot fake.

Fake Learn Jump Know Fundamentals

I didn't have a lot of good film coming out of college. Also, my height didn't help me at all. I ran a decent 40, but no one would call it blazing speed.

Good College Me Help Speed Height

I try to stay low-carb and high on lean protein. I'm lucky in that I love chicken and rice; it's one of my favorite meals. I steam some vegetables and top them with olive oil for some flavor.

Love Vegetables Chicken Try Lucky

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

Princess Margaret

Life Always Becoming Dread Passenger

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