Susan Orlean Quotes

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

Susan Orlean

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LifeDogBetterInterestingMore

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Robert Morgan

PoetryVoiceConnectionDiscovery

There's no service ribbon for people who fought in Korea. We lost over 30,000 men between 1951 and 1953 - as many as we lost in 15 years in Vietnam.

Michael Cimino

ServiceMenPeopleLostOverYears

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Roger Kahn

SportsManBaseballEarlyLying

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

Joseph Rotblat

WarColdThinkingOverCold War

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?

Donald Cerrone

FunPeopleHave FunThinkThinking

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

Christina Baker Kline

ChildrenPeopleFeelAbandonedCause

I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time, and music was my best friend, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Clinton Sparks

FriendMusicTimeBestMeStart

Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.

Boris Johnson

MyselfForwardThinkFeelI CanOld

It may sound cliched, but 'Strictly' is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to stay in as long as they can, but above all to enjoy it.

Anton du Beke

JourneyPartnerEnjoyLongTryReal

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

Susan Rice

LeadershipThinkAmericanUnderstand

I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so.

Scott Bakula

StoryOutCutActuallyRightfully

Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him.

Two Chainz

BusinessSmartHimEverythingHe

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