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RockNet: Were you terribly uncomfortable at the recent Grammy Award Show?

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• Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Tax
  • Effective
  • Global

• We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Baby
  • Healthy

• My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
  • Author

• What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • Society
  • Nothing

• I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Chinese
  • Transformation

• There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Society
  • Critical

• I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.

  

  Washed Out
  • Just
  • Normal
  • Unfortunately

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Power
  • Shadow
  • Security

• I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Party

• I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • Book
  • Attention

• The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Want
  • Passion
  • Talent

• One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Family
  • Humor
  • Sense

• You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • World
  • Kind

• If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Like
  • Jack Whittaker

• The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Evil
  • Story
  • Genocide

• When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

  

  Jon Landau
  • Music
  • Recording
  • Beatles

• It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

  

  Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
  • Real
  • Challenge

• I have always found that the less we speak of our intentions, the more chance there is of our realizing them.

  

  John Ruskin

• When I see players like Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Robinson Cano, and Miguel Cabrera, I see they have a good season, but they also jump up the next year and do it over and over again. I want to be one of those players that do it every year.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • Up
  • Good
  • Jump

• In the screwed-up life I’d been dealt, she was my only source of comfort.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • Comfort
  • Source

• RockNet: Were you terribly uncomfortable at the recent Grammy Award Show?

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden