""What kind of world do we live in? Why are we applauding this guy's abs?" I mean, no offense to Michael Phelps. We like him. But he's not smart. He hasn't invented anything or saved people's lives. He's a guy with abs, and we celebrate these abs."

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Source : "The Pressure Cooker as Transcendence". Interview with David L. Ulin, believermagblog.wordpress.com. January 15, 2014.

Mark Haskell Smith

#Smart Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books
“No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!”

Source : "Erica Rivera Interviews The Cake Boss". Interview with Erica Rivera, www.ericarivera.net. November 9, 2011.
“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
“I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.”
“An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.”
“My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.”

Source : "Frank Bruno schools young boxers on Dereck Chisora and David Haye" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
“I think the main benefit is that much of the traditional parenting that's being carried out today is so fear based and while the parent thinks they're in control they're really being ruled by fear. Everything is connected to fear.”

Source : Source: www.chicagonow.com
“Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.”

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