Michael Paterniti Quotes
Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
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On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.
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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.
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Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.
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Mind your till, and till your mind.
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Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.
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It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
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What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.
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Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.
