Annie Jacobsen Quotes

Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?

Annie Jacobsen

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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.

Val McDermid
- Time
- House
- Doing
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

Irving Babbitt
- Movement
- Sides
- Masses
As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

Uday Kotak
- Work
- Different
- Long
Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.

Adam Cohen
- Up
- Business
- Law
Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

Barry Diller
- Man
- Law
- Couple
When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

Karen Salmansohn
- Up
- Bad
- Happy