Michael Chabon Quotes

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• I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
  • Die
  • Afraid

• I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Director
  • Project

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
  • Unexpected

• When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • You
  • Buying

• I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Blame

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Act
  • Prove
  • Monarchy

• Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Business
  • Me
  • Performing

• I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Running

• It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Long
  • Opinion
  • Unique

• Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Music
  • Business
  • Woman

• I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.

  

  Kaki King
  • Play
  • Having
  • Rely

• Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Friendship
  • Companion

• 'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • History
  • Show
  • SNL

• I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Greatness

• We've educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren't. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they're really protecting themselves. Besides, you can't protect children. They know everything.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Children

• The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Bad
  • Interesting
  • Pain

• Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.

  

  Michael Chabon
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Literature