Alexander Chee Quotes

When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.

Alexander Chee

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CollegeRichFriendsSummerFirst

I often say that it's only people who have their skin in the business who'll work towards its success.

Subhash Chandra

WorkSuccessBusinessPeopleSkin

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

Stone Gossard

MusicSomeoneMomentsYouAlways

My first experience with gymnastics was when I was in daycare. We took a field trip to a gym, and I was hooked.

Simone Biles

ExperienceGymFirstTripGymnastics

I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie seriously because everything is heightened. A kid being bitten by a radioactive spider and getting superpowers is kind of ridiculous.

Tom Holland

ThinkMoviesKindSeriouslyKid

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

Mike Gallagher

MeArroganceAlwaysLeftFascinates

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.

Louise Gluck

BestSimpleMeLanguageMeaningWay

I was a huge show-choir girl!

Dove Cameron

GirlHuge

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

Cory Booker

GreatSchoolCityKnowWillNever

I have so many books that are sitting around half-read.

Colman Domingo

SittingBooksManyAround

I listen to podcasts while I run in Boise's foothills.

Anthony Doerr

RunListenWhile

It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.

Sean Combs

GoNowOutsideRightBikiniLike

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

Timothy Noah

TechnologyLogicDownProfitSales

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