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The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.
No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.
Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.
When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
After living a decade in Jakarta, I chose. I chose Manila, the Philippines, for better or worse.
In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.
I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.
The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.
Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
The disease of debt has reached the top. And once it reaches the top it has no-where else to go.
Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care.
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.
If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.
For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one.
The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.
I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.
Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.
The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected.
I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.
The fundamental rule of the business traveller must be nothing must stop you from getting there.
You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.
Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.
Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.
There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.
Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.
A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.
Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida
A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.
I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.
I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.