Quotes by Rachel Sklar - Page 2

I don't feel like I have to apologize for being a technophile, ever. Technology is awesome and lets me do so much. Nor do I feel like I have to apologize for loving my work.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Technology
Work Me Feel
Work Technology Me
Apologize
Awesome
Lets
Nor
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Expecting
Firm
Former
Obscene
Rate
Hire
Law Firm
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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Authority
Dare
Debut
Thanks
Stuart
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I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Lane
Yorker
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While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Annoying
Fickle
People Doing Know
Contributions
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Run
Emails
Sent
Tireless
Traded
Wake
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In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Cheese
Fifteen
Onions
Vain
Attempt
Earned
Melt
Microwave
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To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Advocate
Connect
Tweeting
Tech
To Be Honest
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Buzz
Former
Latter
Nbc
Snl
Suits
Guest
Hosts
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Pop Culture
Purple
Clearly
Lights
Tail
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Chained
Distasteful
Lawyer
Term
Workaholic
Nights
Recall
Reminds
Weekends
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Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Gripping
Exactly What
Locker
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I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Luck
Frequently
Day Every Day Way
Trace
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Bob
Danger
News
Reporters
Zone
Abc
Case
Invent
Risking
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
December
Exposure
Mike
Phenomenon
Allen
Concept
Explained
Oddly
Search
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Crumbling
Disaster
Feet
Fire
Guarding
Media
Local
Mention
National Media
Required
Viewing
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What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Favors
Silence
Transparent
Women I Am Me
Cone
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Someday
Suggestions
Per
Leaning
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What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Barriers
Entry
Exploding
Flexible
Work Technology New
Industries
Possibilities
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You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Debate
Rational
Reasonable
Thorough
Airing
Informed
Um
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I love technology, and man, is it helpful. But it also means you're always on. Always findable. Always available to 'just take five minutes' to answer an email, tweet a link for someone, check in quickly on FourSquare.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Available
Tweet
Love Technology Always
Check
Link
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I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Blessing
Site
Flourish
Outset
Survive
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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Multiple
Platforms
Sea
Crashing
Each One
Giant
Waves
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Engagement
Loaded
Mom And Dad
Parental
Sesame Street
Awesome
Entertain
Dad Mom Mom And Dad
References
Sesame
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Birthday
Amazed
Two Weeks
People Never Own
Bought
Explained
Oven
Pots
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New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Cute
Diet
Cheese
Coke
Exception
Leftovers
Premium
Apartments
Chilling
No Exception
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Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Filing
Good Advice
Lawsuit
Networks
Facebook
Social Networks
Sued
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Legal
Yellow
Assignment
Memo
Pad
Partner
Signed
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If you don't know Tom Lehrer, you should - in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Claims
Mathematician
Pianist
Satirist
Addition
Los
Researcher
Tom
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting - if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Distracted
Online
Surfing
Funny Work Me
Downloaded
Ricky
Urging
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In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Complicated
Having Children
Daunting
Fraught
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I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Politics I Am Me
Intersect
Observer
Overlap
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I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Abortion
Decision
Inconsistent
Pro Life
Physically
I Am Way More
Consider
Debilitating
Mention
Pro-Choice
Wrenching
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Minimum
Rate
Discount
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Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Cutting
Flying
Looming
New Orleans
Beside
Flowing
Highway
Lake
Orleans
Stretch
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Hilarious
Love Time Amazing
Blog
Talented
Forces
Medium
Requires
Talented People
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Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Boyfriend
Ardent
Calories
Environmentalist
License
School Years
Burn
Driver
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Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Careless
Rendering
Sloppy
Exists
Journalists
Nuances
Ton
Types
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My co-founder and great friend Glynnis MacNicol is only a chat box away and gives me the support (and tough love!) needed to remember who I am and what I'm worth. You can't be your own cheerleader all of the time. Be there to support your friends and let them support you.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Powerful
Support You
Who I Am
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I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Fourth
Friday
Juice
Summer Camp
Jewish
Nights
Camp
Commandment
Observed
Grape
Overly
Via
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Dropping
Time And Space
Time Space Great
Article
Blog
Dive
Emails
Space Time Great
Post
Weekends
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In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Daily Show
Editors
Publishers
September
Tape
Unbelievable
Jon
Event
Interviewing
Jon Stewart
Magazine
Maniacal
Recorder
Smuggle
Tape Recorder
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Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Chicago
Energetic
Engaging
Offering
Site
Exactly What
Sales
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
Amusing
Phone Calls
Thanks
Calls
Checking
Gratifying
Tweeting
Occasionally
Stretch
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