"Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped."

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Source : "Fear Of Fainting, Flight And Cheese: One Man's 'Age Of Anxiety'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 6, 2014.

Scott Stossel

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Success and failure are equally surprising.”
“An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.”
“I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.”
“[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.”
“If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.”
“I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.”

Source : "Navid Negahban: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. November 25, 2009.
“It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.”
“Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."”

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