Allan Houston Quotes

You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

Allan Houston

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LoveMorningTimeSchoolBreakfast

It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

Jennifer Egan

WorkLiveMeWinBookImpossible

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

John Jay Chapman

FocusNewNewspaperExperimentEach

In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide.

Jefferson Han

LightYouWithinFingerPipeFiber

I speak up when it's needed.

Torrey Smith

SpeakUpNeeded

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

Martin Van Buren

PastLawArmyOrganizingMilitary

We focus on Eventbrite and our family. That's how we spend our time, full stop.

Julia Hartz

FamilyTimeFocusStopOur TimeOur

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

Drew Barrymore

ThinkHotDefinitely

Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

Alice McDermott

LifeReadingWonderPlaceKnowMeet

It's good for a story to have a strong style.

Shaun Evans

GoodStyleStoryStrong

In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space.

Timothy Morton

TimeSpaceIdeasMapOrderWell

It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals, are ultimately a better bet for delivering a fair and just world and reconciling differing interests.

Noreena Hertz

MoneyI AmWorldBelieveBetter

I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

Marie Windsor

BeautifulGreatMyselfNeverKnew

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