George Saunders I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I’ve done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. – George Saunders Capitalist Quotes Engineer Quotes Engineering Quotes Geophysical Quotes Jobs Quotes Life Quotes Lot Quotes Skeptically Quotes Society Quotes Started Quotes Strange Quotes I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it’s a nice way to neutralize that polarization. When I was a kid, I took ‘The Brady Bunch’ and ‘The Partridge Family’ very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
GovernmentRush Limbaugh You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. – Rush Limbaugh
Katharine Whitehorn I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it’s no place actually to get any work done. – Katharine Whitehorn
Melissa Villasenor I do love an audience. For me, that’s the ultimate. The best thing is feeling the crowd and having the same energy and laughing together. – Melissa Villasenor
Diana Gabaldon I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I’ve written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text. – Diana Gabaldon
Solomon Burke I didn’t do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands… that wasn’t me. – Solomon Burke
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