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Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
When a person gives, he loves the object of his giving more -- and so love is planted and grows.
What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.
It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.
The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.
I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment.
People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.
The searing light of morning Asks unwelcome questions, Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.
I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.
Completing college is a big deal, and commencements do a good job of making the moment feel big.
My dog doesn't like dogs, and I kind of get where she's coming from; I'm not too keen on people.
We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?
Our happiness relies more on hope, faith and our inner values than on anything outside ourselves.
They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.
Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
Value-based leaders believe in democratic workplaces in which employees participate in decisions.
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
Im nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Never, ever, take a "no" from someone who's not empowered to give you a "yes" in the first place.
You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.
It's amazing how filling my cup with empty calories can lead to filling out the rear of my jeans.
I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.
A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.
I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.
I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.