Gary Shteyngart Quotes

I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

Gary Shteyngart

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LoveBornInevitableFirstYears

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

Jennifer Lee

ChildhoodI AmFirstLikeChinese

When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

Megyn Kelly

HealthMyselfSchoolLawInsurance

Drake ain't fake.

Amanda Seales

FakeDrake

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

Sloane Crosley

TechnologyFreedomWantPersonalUs

The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to probably does his or her best to spend less. It is a human behavior that is as revealing as any other about human nature, but only if it can be released from the social straitjacket of nicety.

Rose George

LifeNatureBestBehaviorGoThree

What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of.

Ruth Reichl

GreatEndYouSellingProductUp

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

Lisa Gardner

LovedMidnightNightmaresGhostRead

Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

Jason Bateman

SmallYouCareerActingEqualBig

If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.

Josh Radnor

SomeoneYouFeelingI CanKnowAct

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

Chuck Klosterman

LoveMeYouArtistInformationLook

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

Brene Brown

ChildrenDangerousRaising Children

America is home to the best researchers, advanced manufacturers, and entrepreneurs in the world. There is no reason we cannot lead the planet in manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines, engineering the smart energy grid, and inspiring the next great companies that will be the titans of a new green energy economy.

Brad Schneider

HomeGreatBestSmartGreenWind

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