"Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on."

-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Men Quotes #Scary Quotes

“Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.”
“Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that.”

Source : Greil Marcus (2011). “Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010”, p.17, Faber & Faber
“I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.”

Source : "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
“Leadership from the Oval Office - and sustained, effective use of the bully pulpit - is essential to getting the American people off their too-pampered butts and into meeting successfully the long-haul challenges of fixing major problems in the very fabric of our republic's life, both domestically and in our international relations.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Schulman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.
“When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.”
“I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.”
“And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.”

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