Adam Gopnik Quotes

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Adam Gopnik

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Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.

Jenny Zhang

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I just grow a terrible mustache, so I try to use my neckbeard as a substitute. And when I get lazy, I don't shave that often.

Andrew Luck

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Digital currencies present a chance for money to truly become information, and for the creation of a global financial system that is truly frictionless, open, and uncensored - the vision we once had for the Internet.

Meltem Demirors

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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Robert Graves

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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Amy Tan

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There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. cartoon, and at the end of it you could probably win 'Jeopardy.'

Tony Danza

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When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself.

Rosemary Mahoney

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I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.

Mitt Romney

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I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

Debby Ryan

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Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.

Winston Marshall

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I did a movie a few years back, 'Medicine for Melancholy.' People will come up to me after a set and say, 'I really love that movie. When are you going to do another one?' Or 'I loved you on 'The Daily Show.' Why did you leave?' It's kind of the same as saying, 'I loved you in high school. You should have never left.'

Wyatt Cenac

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I don't think that any campaign is ennobled by people trading insults.

Susan Collins

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