Michael Chabon Quotes

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

Michael Chabon

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• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
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• Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

  

  Randy Pausch
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  • Health
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• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
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• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  

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• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• What drew me to this job is that Univision is a brand unlike any other in all of media. Univision has the highest brand affinity of any brand, and that includes Microsoft and Apple and some of the iconic brands in all of industry.

  

  Randy Falco
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• Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Me
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• Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • Man

• I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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  • Happy
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• Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • World
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  

  Hans Frank
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• Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.

  

  Alison Bechdel
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• I believe in the British lion and I believe that the British character is lion-hearted, and I believe that it has not been lion-hearted in some of the post-War period, and I want it to get back to being lion hearted.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe
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• It is a great night. It is the end of Socialism.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
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• I'm very, very blessed.  But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now.  As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.

  

  Britney Spears
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• I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

  

  Joanna Lumley

• The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.

  

  Derek Kilmer
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  • Car

• There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
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  • May

• And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

  

  Will Smith
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• The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.

  

  Mary Jo White

• Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
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  • Nature
  • Opinion

• All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Growing
  • Actors
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• I still come closest to success with drawing.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Success
  • Drawing

• Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

  

  Michael Chabon
  • Moments
  • Written
  • Composition