Ian Frazier Quotes

Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.

Ian Frazier

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ImaginationAmericaSizeLimitless

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

Jimmy Wales

TimeThinkBadKnowThreeWhy

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

St. Jerome

FatherSonI AmMeLivingWasted

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

Ronny Chieng

WritingComedyMuscleDifferentVery

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Roseanne Barr

SmartYouKnowNothingWayReal

What you get when you elect Lisa Murkowski is you get somebody who builds on that legacy that Ted Stevens built for our state for 40 years that continues on that path, that trajectory, to helping a young state like Alaska build us out.

Lisa Murkowski

PathLegacyYouYoungBuildAlaska

I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.

Denis O'Hare

PeopleMeDoingYouDownChicago

Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

Bob Newhart

WifeBlindCareerChoiceNeverUp

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

Brooke Hayward

MotherParentsSelfishFeelingsTrue

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

Bruce Henderson

SomeoneHappenAdvantageOnlyYour

As the leader of an oil-producing nation, I know how hard it can be to prioritize environmental issues, but the short-term risk to our economic security is far outweighed by the potential risk to our national and regional security.

Ali Bongo Ondimba

LeaderEnvironmentalPotentialKnow

I'm a TV addict.

Shanola Hampton

TVAddict

At the end of the day, when I step in that cage, I'm there to fight for my name. It's not about money; it's not about who's gonna win or lose. It's about me winning. That's all that matters.

Tito Ortiz

MoneyDayFightStepMeWin

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