What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They’re a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They’re a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot. Scott Adsit Read Quote
As you get older, you either become proactive about staying in shape and taking care of yourself, or, you know, time has its effect on you. Mike Love Read Quote
People weren’t willing to bet on ‘The Commercial Guy’ when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it’s slowly starting to pay off. Nate Torrence Read Quote
I find the world with its inequities and injustices to be messy, unfair, and complicated. The cosmos, on the other hand, is orderly and beautiful – this I find terribly alluring and captivating. Priyamvada Natarajan Read Quote
Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is as much American as it is universal: a dream of equal opportunity for all based on merit, of power concentrated not in the hands of a few at the top, but fanning across a large, educated, and civically engaged middle class. Leila Janah Read Quote
I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Read Quote
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it’s one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. William Least Heat-Moon Read Quote