The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual. Pankaj Mishra Read Quote
In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn’t convince other people to really do it. And this year, I’m not running it. Bernice Johnson Reagon Read Quote
I didn’t grow up with my dad, or around the whole legacy. I was post-Motown, so I’d always hear stories and wonder what was it like. Redfoo Read Quote
Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about. Alan Arkin Read Quote
I graduated from college December of 2017 and looking ahead and thinking about potentially starting a book, I just kept getting hung up before even starting because I didn’t want to write a book that only people that have served in the military or that have been to combat could understand. Kyle Carpenter Read Quote
I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods. Keira Knightley Read Quote
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. James H. Douglas, Jr. Read Quote
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don’t want to waste my time with them. Chuck Palahniuk Read Quote
