Marco Arment Quotes

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

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• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.

  

  Halsey
  • Direction
  • Fan
  • Horizon

• We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Information
  • Farmers
  • Were

• There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Intense

• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Long
  • Effort
  • Determination

• The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • House
  • Myself

• When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Life
  • Always
  • Rights

• I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

  

  Mae West
  • Like
  • Try
  • Three

• My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

  

  Larry King
  • Father
  • New York
  • Generosity

• I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Change
  • New
  • Journal

• World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

  

  Zadie Smith
  • World
  • Question
  • First

• Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.

  

  Mamie Eisenhower
  • Country
  • Turn
  • Pork

• I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Country
  • Help
  • Small

• If you value your wins and you value what you've done over the course of your career, then you wouldn't want people harboring over a loss, even though you fought extremely well.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Done
  • Career

• No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Good
  • Work
  • Party

• In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Certainly, critics are not all created equal.

  

  Lionel Shriver

• But many more daughters of distant fathers are unable to reach orgasm, or achieve it with consistency with any man. Indeed these daughters have the most trouble in bed: for them, affection and arousal are synonymous with rejection.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Achieve
  • Rejection
  • Consistency

• Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Time
  • Free
  • Understanding

• The change is from inner to outer. - We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Attitude

• The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, his messengers, To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours. The waves of Time may devastate our lives, The frosts of age may check our failing breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Pain

• I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

  

  Marco Arment