Michael Dirda
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MALAIKA ARORA KHAN MATT BOMER Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any give... GLORIA NAYLOR MARGARET HALSEY DONNA KARAN LEMONY SNICKET BRENE BROWN And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened w... ROD STEIGER Michael Jackson's song "one step at a time " seems to describe everybody, metaphorically and literal... SONYA.E.WILLIAMS BESS TRUMAN To me, it's the same whether we're at home or on the road, ... It's just one day at a time. We can't... MATTHEW BARNABY HEIDI KLUM MUNSHI PREMCHAND A person who has got almost all traits and attributes in-common with the people in his circle is jus... ANUJ SOMANY BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild ha... KATE HALVERSON MARGARET HALSEY MARGARET HALSEY As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter's or waitress's income. But they are... STEPHEN J. DUBNER On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in ... JEFFREY ZELDMAN I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock a... JACKIE COOPER And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter ha... JOHN FRUSCIANTE NEIL GAIMAN CHRISSY TEIGEN I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. NEIL YOUNG When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern da... SARAH ZETTEL When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how ... BRANDY NORWOOD LINDSAY DAVENPORT One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M.... PETE HAMILL The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. JEFF RICH Koyun eti göçebe halkların temel gıda maddesidir. Ayrıca koyun hızlı büyüyen, et ve iç ya�... SERCAN AHINCANOV MARGARET HALSEY MARGARET HALSEY CANDACE CAMERON BURE OLIVIA WILDE MAYA ANGELOU The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving m... BRIAN WILSON There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is ... GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marria... JON ANDERSON LAURA SCHLESSINGER At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on t... GAIL CARRIGER CAMILA CABELLO CHARLES M. SCHULZ I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and p... JACKIE COOPER CHRISTINA MILIAN JEANIENE FROST I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs... AMANDA SEYFRIED JOYCE CARY GORDON BETHUNE A.A. MILNE Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward. KATE HARPER SARAH DESSEN PAUL TAYLOR I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when ... LAURA LEIGHTON How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time. DAVID FINCHER ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL DEYTH BANGER I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at audition... JAMIE DORNAN IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are li... JACK DORSEY KEVIN NEALON At a time when the king, and most of his subjects, believed his power to be God-given, these were ex... DANNY DANZIGER OLIVIA WILDE BILL GATES LEA MICHELE When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses d... MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even C... PRINCE ROYCE RACHAEL TAYLOR MICHAEL STRAHAN I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm ... BUDDY RICE I'm pretty single-minded, unlike a lot of directors who miraculously seem to be holding six proj... TODD HAYNES One day I'm lugging walls back and forth in Louisville, and the next day I'm at Cannes givin... CHRIS EIGEMAN DAVID GUTERSON When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat. LAURA DEKKER DREW BARRYMORE Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars tha... MARC ANDREESEN L. FRANK BAUM Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them. DAVID REISMAN Take a moment to remember those you have lost along the way, and, let them know you thought of them ... T.R. THRESTON You would not be able to find one person in this family that didn't think that they could beat anybo... CAROLYN WITHERSPOON I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I&#... ROBERT CRUMB I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a pr... WANDA SYKES VIDYA BALAN At any given time, ... I probably have eight to 10 similar cases I'm working on, either writing lett... WAYNE SORENSEN Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-cl... BRIAN O'DRISCOLL SIMON SINEK JIM BUTCHER CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
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MICHAEL SHANNON You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to. MICHAEL MINA MICHAEL CAINE MICHAEL SYMON We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. ... MICHAEL CHERTOFF There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag... MICHAEL PATERNITI MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL PORTER MICHAEL STRAHAN I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan. MICHAEL CARBONARO To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh... MICHAEL BURGESS MICHAEL JORDAN The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the... 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But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b... MICHAEL NUTTER In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st... MICHAEL HANEKE Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr... MICHAEL ROOKER MICHAEL LEUNIG A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit. MICHAEL KORS MICHAEL MOORE If you copy then it is not self-expression. MICHAEL SCHENKER I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both w... 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MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. MICHAEL WINTER MICHAEL KORDA MICHAEL JORDAN MICHAEL JORDAN MICHAEL JORDAN MICHAEL GREGER MICHAEL GREGER MICHAEL SHERMER Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ... MICHAEL BEHE MICHAEL KEATON MICHAEL MCCAUL MICHAEL KORDA What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not... MICHAEL VICK That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I... MICHAEL VICK MICHAEL ENDE MICHAEL KORDA MICHAEL GREGER MICHAEL KORDA MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i... MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot... MICHAEL PATERNITI I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful. MICHAEL LANDES Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ... MICHAEL PATERNITI I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were... MICHAEL BERGIN
I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... 
I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-... 
At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, S... 
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a ... 
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, h... 
My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. 
I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, becau... 
I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time. 
Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up ... 
It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at... 
Since the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one's ever been able to satisfy a wedding... 
I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on. 
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g... 
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... 
There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their pho... 
I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarr... 
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g... 
I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom. 
If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling. 
I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working ... 
If you take on the martyr/entitlement role, two things are definitely going to happen: you’ll be a... 
I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I ... 
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. 
I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, ... 
Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I... 
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the m... 
Whether I'm at the hangar or at the airport or on an airplane, I get respect. And that's the... 
It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner o... 
Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem ... 
I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape record... 
It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel tha... 
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... 
I feel guilty: when I'm not golfing, I feel like I should be golfing. And when I'm golfing, ... 
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great fee... 
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looki... 
I'm Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I'm 100 different things meshed into one. I think that s... 
If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're t... 
My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years o... 
Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a publ... 
I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary. 
I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray... 
I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals. 
Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't ... 
The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to w... 
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. 
Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari... 
My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that the... 
With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one cor... 
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. 
I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There&... 
When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se... 
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't... 
Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours wi... 
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. 
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and... 
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. 
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo... 
It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar... 
There is no 'i' in team but there is in win. 
I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's... 
I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ... 
It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl... 
Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than... 
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca... 
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his... 
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. 
Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents. 
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo... 
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o... 
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for tr... 
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. 
The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o... 
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l... 
No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. 
Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-h... 
I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the... 
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow... 
Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. 
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be... 
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. 
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a... 
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th... 
You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba... 
As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:... 
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco... 
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st... 
In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm... 
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho... 