Michael Finkel Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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There has been a major shift in how we live in our homes. Everyone knows the kitchen is the soul of the house. It's more of an open-concept approach.
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It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
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I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.
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Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.
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I've been a free man.
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Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
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You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam?
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When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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When I was young, there was no such thing as YA. You simply went from reading children's novels to reading adult novels. So one year, I was reading Tove Jansson, and the next year, I was reading Stephen King.
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I've done soap operas in New York, playing a continuing character who goes through changes and develops, but none of that has created the enduring interest that 'Twin Peaks' has.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
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I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
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America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances.
