The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul. Elif Batuman Read Quote
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame – not even the worst individuals, not even the ‘best’ citizens – as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life. Lincoln Steffens Read Quote
I didn’t read children’s books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books. Michael Foreman Read Quote
Just in the last week of his life, you could have seen him at Walgreens or at the Electric Fetus, where he often shopped for records – an astonishing sight, like the Mona Lisa taking in her own portrait at the Louvre. Prince, paradoxically, was reclusive but always around. Steve Rushin Read Quote
When you’re coming up in the business, there are so many people giving you advice and people prepping you for interviews: what to say, what not to say. When you don’t know the business, you kind of take all that on and say, ‘This is what I need to do, and I need to do what people tell me to do.’ Dan Amboyer Read Quote
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. Ben Stein Read Quote
I adore doing comedy, I think it’s fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy. Zach Cregger Read Quote
