Elayne Boosler Quotes

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

Elayne Boosler

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FunnyPeopleMeThinkWrongNever

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

Andrew Sean Greer

ThinkPlaceUnderstandFictionGet

It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

WorldImpossibleBelieveWineYear

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Michael Fassbender

FailureLookingPressureFeelYou

I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

Amanda de Cadenet

JobSickFamousBeing FamousBeing

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

Steven Chu

BecomeOutAtomsLaserLikeHigher

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Robin Day

EvilAdvertisingThinkYouNewGet

I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.

Roy Ayers

GoodTimePeopleMeYearLook

This is the thing I've learned, after a lot of couch time: There are always red flags. You need to look for those red flags along the way so you don't continue to make the same mistakes with another person.

Michelle Pfeiffer

TimeMistakesRedYouLookPerson

I started off at a local newspaper called 'The Middle East Times,' which is no longer in existence. I remember one of the earliest stories that I wrote for them was a study about domestic violence in Egypt from a government-run research institute think tank.

Mona Eltahawy

ResearchThinkViolenceRemember

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

Joshua Oppenheimer

AngerGuiltFeelingHumanDenial

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

EnergyKnowStrangeReflectAway

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

Corbin Bernsen

GodTimeFeelingForgetSpiritOver

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