Susan Orlean Quotes

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.

Susan Orlean

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HomeServiceMeIgnorePhoneKnow

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

Joe Rogan

ChildFamousFeelMakeLikeReally

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Jock Sturges

BeautyStrangePhysicalThing

Growing older doesn't bother me.

Angie Dickinson

MeGrowingBotherOlder

I have so much to be thankful for.

Alyssa Edwards

ThankfulBe ThankfulMuch

Singing's not my real passion.

Skrillex

PassionSingingRealReal Passion

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

Steve Valentine

FriendMeWorldYouBackRock

Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals.

Simon Kuznets

SuccessPurposeWarCountryEqual

I am not a superstitious person.

Tom Morello

I AmPersonAmSuperstitious

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

Roger Altman

VoteWashingtonDebtNeedLimitLot

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

Moby

TimeSleepYouSometimesNeverKid

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

Jose Saramago

FamilyTimeWorldLegalBornFraud

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

Chris Evans

RelationshipI AmLookingSingleAm

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