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David Means Quotes

The short story is kind of a precision tool. It allows me a certain type of freedom to go in and out of the American landscape, without having to commit myself to a full-length novel. I find a lot of novels out there very boring.

David Means

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 17, 1961

Topics

Freedom Myself Me Story American

The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.

Jim Harrison

Me World Rest Fat Diet America

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

John B. S. Haldane

Socialism Problem Size Biologist

Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it because so many people have experienced it to varying degrees. For me, I'm doing great now, but it took a lot of work to figure out how to get back to sleep. I had to change some of my habits. I developed some pretty bad sleep ritual habits.

Jenny Lewis

Work Change Women Health Great Me

There are a lot of people who want to leave their children with a world that is in better shape.

Robert J. Fisher

Children People World Better Want

There's nothin' wrong with the way men dress in New York!

Michael Bastian

Men Dress New York Wrong New Way

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

John Podhoretz

Power People Better You Intellectual

It brings a smile to my face every time I look in the record book and see my name with the likes of Hutson and Lance Alworth and Raymond Berry, some of the fabled receivers of the NFL. It's all like a dream to me. I can't believe it's true.

Steve Largent

Smile Time Me Book Believe Face

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Life Music Daily Dance Me World

We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.

Michael T. Flynn

Tired Rhetoric Empty Misguided His

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.

Lorna Luft

Opportunity Los Angeles More Call

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Opportunity People Challenges Sugar

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

Chuck Palahniuk

Artist Feelings Skills Living Others