Nancy Lublin Quotes

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

Nancy Lublin

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PoetryWriteEverythingWearSoft

I love competing. I mean, if you ask anybody around me, my coaches, they know I love competing. I hate losing.

Joel Embiid

LoveHateLosingMeYouKnow

My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.

Anna Kendrick

LifeWorkMyselfWalkSupportMe

Good titles are hard, people. Just ask the guy who came up with 'Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.'

Steve Hockensmith

GoodPeopleWonderAskHardUp

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

Robert Teeter

ThinkCountryRhetoricPresident

I don't ever want to play a festival again, period.

Mike McCready

PlayWantAgainFestivalEver

I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.

Jon Krakauer

LovedYouAlaskaGotPaidWorking

I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.

Bobby Flay

ChefRestaurantFindSleepingWay

The millennial generation wants to express every feeling to feel like you're connected to it, and there's something very dark about tragedy that people are drawn to.

Alia Shawkat

PeopleGenerationFeelYouDark

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Alison Bechdel

SpyReadAboutTimesHarriet

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Richard Preston

SpaceSmallTreesOutSomething

I'm definitely a boot-scootin' kind of guy.

Ryan Merriman

KindGuyDefinitely

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

Mark Edwards

LifeSoulMy SoulPlaceWillAlways

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