Mark Frauenfelder Quotes

The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.

Mark Frauenfelder

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Physically, no one would ever consider me for the serial-killer lady.

Jennifer Coolidge

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You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

John Cena

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I've had Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy as a tag-team partner.

Roddy Piper

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The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Rose Tremain

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The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Rudolf Arnheim

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Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

Mike O'Malley

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God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.

Mike Royko

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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

Michael Ondaatje

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It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

Michael Jordan

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I don't have social media. I don't have Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat.

Lucas Hedges

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The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.

Jonathan Dee

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I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU.

Dee Rees

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