Week Quotes - Page 11

• I love going to synagogue on Friday night and being swept in the melodies. Everyone seems more friendly and unburdened by the week and ready to be taken elsewhere.

  Erica Brown

  Friday, Taken, Night

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30 to 45 minute prescheduling of tweets and just seeing if there's anything urgent - do-or-die emails or server outages, stuff like that. Then after that I go to the gym, where I do all my long-form reading - so Instapaper, and all the Kindle books. I go through an embarrassing amount of books per week.

  Maria Popova

  Morning, Book, Reading

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• But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form, and then my day begins. I usually try to do most of my writing earlier in the day because I sort of lump out later on.

  Maria Popova

  Book, Writing, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

  Anthony Hamilton

  Men, Different, Albums

  "R&B artist Anthony Hamilton". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 14, 2012.

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• Women should feel more liberated to say you know what? I can't bake the cookies for the school bake sale because I just don't have the time. Or I'm really sorry, but I can't do this at work because I've got too much else going on this week. We have to be more up front in saying no, for lack of a better word, and then modeling that for others.

  Debora Spar

  Sorry, School, Cookies

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that people eat very small amounts of it. That it's a special thing, rather than reach for it because it's cheap or reach for it because it's convenient, that it becomes something festive or something celebratory, once a week, and that could actually be achieved on small farms if we really changed our habits.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, People, One Day

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to assemble the smartest reporters who are available to me that week who have been involved in covering the news.

  Gwen Ifill

  Friday, Night, Goal

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.

  Marion Nestle

  Two, Doctors, Sick

  "MoJo Audio: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine". Interview with Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. October 21, 2008.

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• We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty.

  Jay Inslee

  Technology, Light, Poverty

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• You got to have dedicated people, a lot of dedicated folk. There's only so much one person can do. We really have to find people in our community that can give an hour a week. I was recruited because I started gangbanging at 12. I understand the structure; I understand the people inside.

  Malik Yusef

  People, Giving, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'll sit down for an hour or two a few days a week in a quiet place and brainstorm. The earlier in the day, the better, before the parade of distractions starts.

  Ted Alexandro

  Two, Quiet, Distraction

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

  Frank Langella

  Kings, Three, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.

  Nick Antosca

  Hurt, Exercise, Hands

  Interview with Shane Jones, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

  Wavy Gravy

  Summer, Fun, Kids

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• We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring. Don't have photographs of the killer. Don't make this 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero. Do localize the story to the affected community and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.

  Park Dietz

  Hero, Media, Years

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• I could eat black walnut all the time, it's not a flavor of the week!

  Herman Cain

  Black, Flavor, Walnuts

  "Herman Cain Refers To Himself As ‘Black Walnut Ice Cream’ On Fox and Friends". www.mediaite.com. October 04, 2011.

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• I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Morning, Sleep, Night

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• A man works hard all week to keep his pants off all weekend.

  Mr. Krabs

  Hard Work, Weekend, Men

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• I'm so loyal, I haven't bathed in weeks!

  Patrick Star

  Loyal, Havens

  "Fictional character: Patrick Star". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Arrgh!/Rock Bottom", 2000), www.imdb.com. (1999–).

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• You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the internet industry it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

  Jason Calacanis

  Humble, Innovation, Vision

  "Calacanis calls time on the internet 'me-toos'". Interview with Zoe Margolis, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2008.

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• This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Secret, Agents, Administration

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• It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1.

  C. J. Anderson

  Couple, Moving, Littles

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• When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in the rug, were all the places I had stayed - for a few weeks, for a few months. On the first night anywhere new I liked to lie in bed and look at the rug to remind myself that I had what I needed even though what I had was so little. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Home, Night

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• You should always change at least three times a day during Fashion Week.

  Selita Ebanks

  Fashion, Three, Should

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