Ben Fountain Quotes

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

Ben Fountain

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At the 'L.A. Times,' I always wanted to write about artists I thought were meaningful. So I interviewed Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Eminem, White Stripes. And I could understand how almost everybody I interviewed had a sense of artistry.

Robert Hilburn

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I don't know why the word 'solopreneur' is in our lexicon. Nobody can physically do it all by themselves, and more importantly, why would they want to? Being the sales team, the HR department, management, and production all by yourself is terrible. Period.

Michael Gerber

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More than once at TechCrunch, we made AOL extremely uncomfortable with things that we wrote. But they never ordered us to write or not write about something because they understood that not only would we not comply, we'd write a post about the whole thing.

Michael Arrington

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I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

Mary Karr

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I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

Jason Momoa

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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Joichi Ito

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A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out the window.

Diane Warren

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My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

Donatella Versace

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All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me.

Craig Kelly

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I'm a Southern girl.

Brooke Burns

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Competition brings out the best.

Brock Osweiler

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My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

Willie Geist

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