Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.
Alice Walker
Recitation: by Male by Female
In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
FailureTruthPoliticsBadRiskOut
Sometimes I have to shake my head at how much work it can take to track down a handful of food. Perfect example: I spent a whole day in the Amazon rainforest, in Ecuador, scouring the trunks of dead palm trees for grubs.
Andrew Zimmern
WorkFoodDayTreesPerfectDown
I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines.
John Scalzi
HappyReadingDoingYoungWatch
People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.
Amy Hood
PeopleUpOvernightShowJust
I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.
Tony McCoy
TimeMyselfRideI AmWinBelieve
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
Rudy Rucker
ScienceIdeasYouPlayTurnFiction
Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian.
Ross Butler
CharacterOpportunityAmericanWhite
I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.
Mary Gauthier
WorkDoneKindTherapyWriteGet
I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone's still going to remember the pre-race routine that I do and the video that went viral, so, y'know, that's alright for me.
Michelle Jenneke
MeWinThinkRememberRoutineGo
In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.
Lukas Haas
VisionMovingStoryQuestionsKind
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
David Simon
ChoicesJournalismSaidSayTrue
I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.
Clark Gregg
New YorkDoingGoNewOutPark
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