Dan Buettner Quotes
Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
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My to-do list is the only form of organization I have, other than my iCal. It's not all work stuff; it's a lot of movies that I want to watch sooner rather than later. I have a list that's like, 'Read an essay from this book, then this one, then go back to this one.'
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I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'
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I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
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Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
