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| f447d15 | Not long after I learned about Frozen, I went to see a friend of mine who works in the music industry. We sat in his living room on the Upper East Side, facing each other in easy chairs, as he worked his way through a mountain of CDs. He played "Angel," by the reggae singer Shaggy, and then "The Joker," by the Steve Miller Band, and told me to listen very carefully to the similarity in bass lines. He played Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love".. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 699378d | Well, also ask yourself this: do you know what Steve Miller looks like? No, you don't. Nobody does. He could be standing right next to you on the subway platform, playing "Jungle Love" on a custom Stratocaster with his name inlaid on the fretboard in mother-of-pearl, and you still wouldn't know who he is. Because as far as you or anybody else knows, Steve Miller is a big blue space-horse with a mane made out of orange space-flames. But ever.. | It Books | ||
| 11f4c00 | Maybe five extra push-ups won't matter that night, but what if you do five extra push-ups twice a day six days a week for a year? Or for fifteen years, as I did? Eventually you realize it does make a difference. I was one of those that did extra. If Steve said, "Do a hundred toe-raises and twenty pull-ups," I would do a hundred and five toe-raises and twenty-two pull-ups, while he counted." | Shannon Miller | ||
| 804d1b5 | RAND HOLSTON: Forrest Gump is a movie I am extremely proud of. I represented Wendy Finerman and Steve Tisch, the producers. STEVE TISCH: Gump was '94 but we set up the project at Warner Bros. in '85--a nine-year development gestation period. It didn't hurt that Ovitz wanted Gump to be made. Hanks and Zemeckis were clients. When the head of the most important talent agency in the business at that time says he wants to make something happen a.. | James Andrew Miller | ||
| ea091ad | Pray as though everything depended upon God but work as though everything depended upon you. | Steve J. Miller | ||
| c30968e | I for one will not re-open the floodgates of Admiralty jurisdiction upon the people of this country. | Admiralty law | ||
| df40a48 | Jobs was convinced that his vegan diet would eliminate body odor, so he passed on the deodorant and skimped on baths. No matter how much his associates told him that he stunk, he never seemed convinced. According to associate Mike Markkula, "We would have to literally put him out the door and tell him to go take a shower."8 So it's no shock that when a routine kidney screening found a highly treatable, slow-growing type of pancreatic cancer.. | J. Steve Miller | ||
| 3e7786a | 2000: 1,509 craft breweries 29 noncraft regional and national breweries AB InBev and MillerCoors: 81 percent share 2013: 2,594 craft breweries 10 noncraft regional and national breweries AB InBev and MillerCoors: 74 percent share | Steve Hindy | ||
| cf52eb6 | Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. -Steve Jobs | James Miller | ||
| fa6e232 | I can't believe you just quoted a Steve Miller tune to the leader of an alien race," Van Doren, standing next to me, muttered under his breath. "Shut up," I muttered back. "It worked." | steve-miller | John Scalzi | |
| 95b03d3 | Should, he thought, was a disturbing word. | J.D. Robb | ||
| cd22bb3 | February 13, 1989 Chicago Tonight at Barbara's Bookstore, Tobias Wolff read from his new memoir, This Boy's Life. | David Sedaris | ||
| c997521 | I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 4f57a9f | Wolverines! | Ernest Cline | ||
| 0f25864 | Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place. | Ernest Cline | ||
| f896c31 | My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings. | emotions father | Ernest Cline | |
| 56b75a2 | Pointing to the oversized crate that served as a manger, one particularly insufficient wise man proclaimed, "A child is bored." Yes, well, so was this adult." | David Sedaris | ||
| 25885a1 | Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living A life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether to kiss or to wound, we still must come together. | David Rakoff | ||
| 7021554 | There are even more galvanizing aspects to the Canadian psyche than mere reticence. There is the collective fear, at least when I was growing up, of becoming too big for our britches. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels (my countryman), it's the kind of place where they award Miss Canada to the runner-up, because the prettiest already gets to be the prettiest. Rather than demanding liberty or, failing that, death, we are a country forever giving u.. | David Rakoff | ||
| 40163cb | To paraphrase Lorne Michaels (my countryman), it's the kind of place where they award Miss Canada to the runner-up, because the prettiest already gets to be prettiest. | David Rakoff | ||
| d66dacd | It has been a good while since 12:00am held much attraction for me beyond being a perfectly lovely time to be ensconced in the comfort of my own home, sitting in my underpants, contentedly worrying about something. | David Rakoff | ||
| 527a4cd | My room is cheerfully located between the sixth-floor elevators. The springs of my bed wheeze. The elevator dings. The ice machine right outside my door rumbles forth its icy bounty, a steady tattoo that beats "Stay up! Stay up!" I am in a canvas that Edward Hopper never felt bummed out enough to paint." | David Rakoff | ||
| 4fe548f | He'd paid all his taxes, so that left ... you guessed it. | David Rakoff | ||
| 5ebc348 | if psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's way of constructing meaning in a postreligious world, what does it mean that I'm impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday? | freud | David Rakoff | |
| abfb7ba | can we pause for a moment to talk about that term, Innovention? A neologism that, in an effort to turbo-charge meaning, takes two perfectly eloquent and unassailable words and by combining them renders both suspect. It is a word developed by a committee, one that can only be spoken unironically if one is being paid to do so, like menus in chain restaurants that list "Snacketizers" and "Appeteasers." Can't you just taste the process-mapping?.. | humor innovention | David Rakoff | |
| 0b55075 | Artists are artists whether they produce or not. None of it requires much more than hanging out. | David Rakoff | ||
| 64ae9f3 | It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does. | David Rakoff | ||
| a1a5cc6 | A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets, And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint. | David Rakoff | ||
| d9f05c1 | The logic underlying the truism that one should always travel on a plane with a book is also precisely why bed-and-breakfast culture is to be avoided if at all possible. Namely, you might have to talk to someone. | humor travel | David Rakoff | |
| 00e48ef | I FIRST STARTED READING about the Lusitania on a whim, following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. | Erik Larson | ||
| 7b7c80c | Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir ine's blood. | Erik Larson | ||
| 0728445 | perhaps when you live your entire life among such scenes, they do not register as beauty but as the world itself-- | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 2ea036f | I don't think of myself as overly prissy, but it bothered me to find a finger on my bedroom floor. | David Sedaris | ||
| fdba522 | I wanted it, I wanted it, I wanted it, but the moment it was mine, it ceased to interest me. | David Sedaris | ||
| 92e194a | admh bh an ndzhy khh mhrbn hstnd Hmq nystnd! | David Sedaris | ||
| da43f96 | I'm not sure how long I lay there, blissed-out and farting. | David Sedaris | ||
| 46c0bc1 | if you're not cute, you might as well be clever. | David Sedaris | ||
| 5c1dc43 | Sex is what you boast about when you have no exterior signs of wealth. It's a way of saying, "Look, I might not own a fancy sport coat, or even a carry-on bag, but I do have two women and all the intercourse I can handle" | sex wealth | David Sedaris | |
| 497ad93 | Get Your Ya-Ya's Out! It was for many years my family's habit to drive from North Carolina to western New York State to visit the relatives we had left behind. After spending ten days with my mother's family in Binghamton, we would drive the half hour to Cortland and spend an afternoon with my father's mother, the woman we addressed as Ya Ya. Ya Ya owned a newsstand/candy store, a long narrow room fitted with magazine racks and the high, wa.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 67e8161 | It was the stupidest thing the cat had ever heard of, an AA program in prison. | David Sedaris | ||
| 35c93e5 | She regarded her grandchildren as if we were savings bonds, something certain to multiply in value through the majesty of arithmetic. Ya Ya and her husband had produced one child, who in turn had yielded five, a wealth of hearty field hands destined to return to the village, where we might crush olives or stucco windmills or whatever it was they did in her hometown. She was always pushing up our sleeves to examine our muscles, frowning at t.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 0d068ba | Whereas our other grandparents asked what grade we were in or which was our favorite ashtray, Ya Ya never expressed any interest in that sort of thing. Childhood was something you endured until you were old enough to work, and money was the only thing that mattered. | David Sedaris | ||
| 13fbf77 | We would pass the afternoon at Ya Ya's table, eating stringy boiled meat served with spinach pie. The food tasted as though it had been cooked weeks beforehand and left to age in a musty trunk. Her meals had been marinated in something dank and foreign and were cooked not in pots and pans, but in the same blackened kettles used by witches. Once we'd been served, she performed an epic version of grace. Delivered in both Greek and broken Engl.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 91c07f4 | Lisa and I groaned, cursing our stupidity. Once again we'd been duped. There was nothing worse than spending an afternoon on a golf course. We knew what was in store for us and understood that the next few hours would pass like days or maybe even weeks. Our watches would yawn, the minute and hour hands joining each other in a series of periodic naps. | David Sedaris |