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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Mason Cooley

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• The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World
  • Literature
  • Better

• I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creative

• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Suffering

• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Work
  • Wall
  • Because

• Big business has no party and never shall have.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Business
  • Party
  • Big

• If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Long
  • War
  • Soul

• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • China
  • Global

• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Christ
  • Really
  • Drinking

• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Think

• Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Two
  • Unity
  • Sides

• During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Dress
  • Top
  • Chef

• Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning
  • Search

• I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

  

  John Hall
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Freedom

• Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.

  

  Bob Beckel

• Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Children
  • Control

• I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.

  

  Ken Goldberg
  • Up
  • Live

• I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

  

  Stanley Robert Vinton
  • Fun
  • Travel
  • Army

• I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Hours

• Roberts pulled out of the 1998 Masters after breaking two ribs while sneezing. The sneeze 'sent me to my knees and I kind of felt something pop,' he reported. Wrote Golf Magazine columnist David Feherty: 'He was lucky. If it had been a (lower intestinal emission), he might have shattered his pelvis.'

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Masters
  • Breaking
  • Ribs

• I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Real
  • History

• Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

  

  Mason Cooley