Jeff Goodell Quotes
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
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Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.
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The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
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Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.
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If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
