Michael Arrington Quotes

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

Michael Arrington

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• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Inspiring

• Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Women
  • Way

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Media

• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Art
  • Enough
  • Get

• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Team

• I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Talent
  • Determination

• I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Woman
  • Diamond

• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Comedy

• You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • You
  • Mining
  • Globally

• No, I never thought I would like cats.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Cats

• In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Great
  • Country
  • Fear

• I find the experience of keeping a journal much more creative on paper than on a computer. When I write, I'm physically immersed in the world and slow down, whereas on screen, I use my senses in a less engaged way - and I skim more.

  

  Keri Smith
  • World
  • Experience

• Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

  

  Bill Pullman

• I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

  

  Chuck D
  • World
  • Enemy

• A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • American
  • Health care

• We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Thought

• Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

  

  Georgi Plekhanov
  • Development
  • Conflict
  • Efforts

• There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that - when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented - that, every day, you wake up going, 'All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.' That's what makes it fun.

  

  Brie Larson
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Financial
  • Conflict
  • Friendships