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		In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Charlie Pierce 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				C. Northcote Parkinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Foster Friess 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ira Glass 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dan Phillips 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hannah Arendt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nancy Carell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Daniel Barenboim 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				E. W. Howe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tabitha Soren 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aaron Levie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dan Hill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Wang Shi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Newt Gingrich 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James Marsh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Canfield 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm working my way toward divinity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bette Midler 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pliny the Elder 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Charlie Pierce