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Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.
Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
I like carbs and I like junk food, and I don't gain any weight from them, so I've been slightly abusive of my body because of this.
I think every girl needs a good lip split story, I have one. I fell onto my front door doorknob coming back from the mailbox, once.
Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.
Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.
I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.
Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.
Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.
Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who wants to start out.
Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
I've been on camels before, lumbering slowly through the desert - not hugely exciting, but I enjoyed the 'Lawrence of Arabia' vibe.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.
the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.
If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.
He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.
In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.
The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
Most people find they have to worry about money; if you don't ever, then in some fundamental way, you are cut off from most people.
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.
With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.
Marco Rubio is really to the right of Chris Christie, when Jeb Bush and John Kasich and he hasn`t been able to pull away from them.
When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.
When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.