Lynn Samuels famous quotes

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.
-- Lynn Samuels

#Two #Exit #Building

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.
-- Lynn Samuels

#Athlete #Past #Thinking

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.
-- Lynn Samuels

#Accents #Terrible

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.
-- Lynn Samuels

#Cutting #Technology #Thrill

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.
-- Lynn Samuels

#Thinking #People #News

Sports is all about money.
-- Lynn Samuels

#Sports

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.
-- Lynn Samuels

#Thinking #Rights #White

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy,

I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.