Erik Wemple Quotes

While there are several challenges, I do believe that over the transition and into the Trump presidency, the media as a whole has done pretty good work, as opposed to a spottier record during the campaign. There has been a lot of shoe-leather reporting going on, and the great story thus far of the Trump White House is the willingness of people who work there to leak to the media.

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• The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Time
  • Home
  • Road

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Door
  • Step
  • First Step

• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Government
  • Decent

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Great
  • You
  • Acting

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Men
  • City
  • Crazy

• I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Pain
  • Now
  • Doctor

• Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Think
  • You
  • Chef

• I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Knowledge
  • Training
  • Medical

• This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • World
  • Different
  • Science

• Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Up
  • Luxury
  • Italy

• The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Kid
  • Shy

• It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Job
  • Tough
  • Ending

• Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Reality
  • Stress
  • Touch

• I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Heart
  • Why
  • May

• Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Important
  • True
  • Road

• I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

  

  Chantal Akerman

• Guitar.com: he tone of Euphoria Morning is kind of melancholy.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Morning

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Brazil

• These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Personal
  • Open

• I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Travel

• While there are several challenges, I do believe that over the transition and into the Trump presidency, the media as a whole has done pretty good work, as opposed to a spottier record during the campaign. There has been a lot of shoe-leather reporting going on, and the great story thus far of the Trump White House is the willingness of people who work there to leak to the media.

  

  Erik Wemple
  • People
  • White
  • Transition