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Erin McKean Quotes

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: american
Birth: 1971

Topics

Good Great Book Back Go Want

When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.

Family Children Myself Growing Up

The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.

Me More Clarinet Than Chose

L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.

Personality Me Big Inspiring Any

Does the Grammys intentionally use artists for their celebrity, popularity, and cultural appeal when they already know the winners and then program a show against this expectation? Meanwhile, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences hides behind the 'peer' voting system to escape culpability for not even rethinking its approach.

Voting Know Escape Celebrity Winners

I'm obsessed with wool.

To truly utilize the full potential of every person in our nation, our laws and representation must track the needs, concerns, and goals of the Latino community.

Goals Community Potential Person

Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of.

Life Loneliness Together Singing Us

No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.

Family Job Me Think Real Seem

Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.

Mother Clothes Say Well Made Most

If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us.

Think Care Stand Decisions Will Own

At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file system. Did not really do very much programming at all. At least on Multics.

Programming System Things Read Some

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

Positive Negative Delete Accentuate

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