Michael Arrington Quotes

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • She
  • Mother
  • New York

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • Things
  • Really

• When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • True
  • Something
  • Trivial

• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Communicate

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Bird

• I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Women
  • Think
  • Same

• For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Day
  • Better
  • Favorite

• Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • May
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Long
  • School
  • She

• Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • You
  • Me
  • Health

• Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Different
  • Think
  • Doing

• Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Soul
  • Cold
  • Survive

• There’s always one more thing you can do to influence any situation in your favor—and after that one more thing, and after that…. The more you do the more opportunities arise.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Influence
  • Situation
  • Thing

• I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • School
  • Childhood

• It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

  

  Angel Olsen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Alone

• I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Trying
  • Situation
  • Issues