Ben Fountain Quotes

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.

Ben Fountain

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It's been so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up whom.

Joan Rivers

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Mobile is something I think about all the time now.

Matt Cohler

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People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

Rollie Fingers

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Mary Wilson Little

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At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

Mary Bono

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I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

Jonathan Krohn

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I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

Douglas Tompkins

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We all need a firm sense of identity.

Christopher Eccleston

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It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.

Chris Milk

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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

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Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.

Peter Jennings

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I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.

Shaquille O'Neal

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