Michael Arrington Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
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I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
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I can cry like Roger. It's just a shame I can't play like him.
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We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'
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I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.
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It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
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People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.
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I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows away. Of course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.
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Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.
