Jami Attenberg Quotes

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Jami Attenberg

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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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Somehow, someway, you get kind of labeled this guy who was in a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie too many. And Freddie Prinze Jr. - it's not his fault, either - it's just these are the things that happen. I'm not a George Clooney; I don't have a ton of opportunities.

Matthew Lillard

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Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Stephen Leacock

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I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

Tom Smothers

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Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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You gotta win; that's all I care about.

Russell Westbrook

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I don't even drink coffee. I try to avoid becoming reliant on any substance.

Lucy Dacus

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The purpose of the Filecoin currency is to create a fungible token that can be spent to hire the miner network to store files. The first and foremost use of the currency is precisely this: locking it up as a reward to miners who successfully store data on the network.

Juan Benet

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Actually, I'm the Scottish Woody Guthrie.

Donovan

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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

Antonio Banderas

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If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

Phylicia Rashad

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I worked at Goose Island Brewery, and I opened the one that was right by Wrigley Field, so I got to see all of the Cubs come through - it was insane on game days.

Shanola Hampton

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