Nicholson Baker Quotes

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

Nicholson Baker

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FunnyFreeFastMessyJustCareful

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

Jim Bridenstine

PeopleControlMeetingsSayOpen

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

Joe Nichols

LoveDayThinkLongArtistJust

I've always felt like an outsider, and I'll probably continue to always feel like an outsider. Hopefully that's a good thing. I feel like I approach things differently than other designers.

Jeremy Scott

GoodFeelAlwaysOutsiderThings

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

Matt Cain

CityStubbornBoyBecomeFirst

Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it.

John Wells

HopePeopleSmallYouSayWant

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

Stromae

ManLanguageDetailsViewYouWant

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

Steve Yzerman

HardPointJustPullTriggerGets

People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

PeopleMeWinGameYouLose

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

Roselyn Sanchez

LiveNew YorkParentsComedyDoing

Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.

Dinesh D'Souza

EducationHistoryLearnCorruption

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

Douglas Lain

ScienceRideFunThinkProblemWant

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

Denise Mina

BrotherSisterLookingYouLiving

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