Graydon Carter Quotes

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

Graydon Carter

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TodayCulturePastWishBackLooks

Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs.

Meghan Markle

ManPeopleCoolThinkAnythingWho

In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien.

Max Richter

MusicGreatPeopleFeelAlienPlay

I can't understand how some guys get tired after one round. If you can't go the distance, why are you even in the fight?

Michael Bisping

FightTiredYouDistanceUnderstand

I love to eat, and I don't believe in denying myself, so I have to work out. I'm not obsessed with it; I don't have a trainer or do any of the fancy classes, but I usually put on my iPod and run on the treadmill for an hour a few days a week. I'd much rather be the girl who worked out more so she could eat more; I could never not eat.

Amber Rose

WorkLoveGirlMyselfBelieveWeek

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

Stefan Zweig

PeaceWarSpeakProcessForceRule

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

Steffi Graf

SomeoneMediaAttentionNeverBeen

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

Steven Weber

LieYouCapableSurvivingPointOwn

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

Robert Collier

YourselfYouWillHardSeeUp

People traveling to malaria-prone areas can protect themselves by taking steps such as taking antimalarial drugs, using insect repellent, sleeping under insecticide-treated bed-nets, and wearing protective clothing.

Tom Frieden

PeopleSleepingProtectClothing

I hate hospitals. Even if it's a joyful occasion when a friend gave birth. It's like, 'Oh, look at the beautiful baby.... and all the disease on the walls...'

Rob Huebel

FriendBeautifulHateWallsBaby

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Mike Birbiglia

DanceMusiciansDancersBackup

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

Michael Pitt

DayStartStoryThinkInteresting

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