Bethany McLean Quotes

Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.

Bethany McLean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 12, 1970

Topics

InfrastructureCapitalOurNeeded

I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.

Jim Parsons

LifePeopleThinkMostReally

Always be prepared to start.

Joe Montana

StartBe PreparedAlwaysPrepared

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

Jennifer Lopez

HappyParentsMeSingingLawyer

I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter who comes into town with secrets - I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.

Simon Toyne

LoveInterestingWarriorSecretsDNA

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

WomenMenSomeoneYouWillBecome

It's very nice to be asked to anybody's wedding. Particularly if it's the Prince of Wales. I learned a lot from it, which was to end early and get away. I suppose one would have to look back historically and see who other royals had at their weddings. Were there people at Queen Elizabeth's wedding who were common like myself?

Jools Holland

MyselfQueenPeopleEndWeddingSee

For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.

Chevy Stevens

CardsWallNeverKnowingOfficeOut

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

PetIdeasWorldThinkPlasticBig

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Paul Theroux

PeopleWritingBookReadingAlways

Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.

Sean Bean

SpaceYearDoneOverEmotionalLord

Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview.

Timothy Morton

ArtJobSmartWritingPerformance

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

Marianne Williamson

CommunityPeopleConnectionComfort

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