I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
Dan Auerbach
LovePeopleTalkingComfortableOpen
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Edmund White
GreatPeopleJudgmentLittleMost
People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.
Dan Barber
FoodPeopleTrueComplainFresh
I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.
MyselfPeopleMeSingingStartPush
The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.
Dan Bartlett
StepPeopleRealityProblemCountry
Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking onstage.
I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
I AmPeopleNiceTake AdvantageTake
People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
PeoplePictureFeelGuiltySayWill
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
PeopleAmericanDieYouPartyParis
I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.
Dan Butler
BusinessPeopleControlThinkDoing
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
PeopleWorryGayWriteStraight
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
Dan Byrd
PeopleYouEarlyNowKindHead
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
BluePeopleFamousDownGroupMean
I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
Ed Weeks
LoveFoodPeopleTexasHolidaysYou
I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.
Dan Aykroyd
FamilyLiveNew YorkPeopleBuilding
Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
Dan Buettner
PeopleYouLifestyleWillWhoYour
My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
PeopleWorldLaughForgetRealMake
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
YourselfSurround YourselfPeopleYou
The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
PeopleDietNothingPlasticMeat
Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
Dan Carter
HomePeopleLookingCarryGoingGet
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.
PeopleBlackAmericanConversation
People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.
LivePeopleWhereActivityWho
People love gentle larceny.
LovePeopleGentleLarceny
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
Dan Chaon
LifeGriefCuriousPeopleLossOver
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