“A big part of the Republican 2016 race is now basically a bunch of establishment Republicans going after each other. Jeb Bush going after Marco Rubio, and the governors, Chris Christie going after Marco Rubio. Rubio firing back, John Kasich going after Jeb Bush.” BigsRaceRepublicanBunchEstablishmentGovernorsFiringMarcosChristie Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“Music is so strong, so powerful, and such an amazing tool and bands that don't take that into account and feel that they are not responsible for their message is a bunch of baloney.” FeelsStrongPowerfulBandMessagesMusic IsToolsAccountsResponsibleBunchBaloney Author:Michael Sweet
“Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.” WorldGivingCareKidsSchoolGuyStuffBlackHellWifeViolenceAskingChaosMy WifeExpectedBunchAssConfusionBrokeLive LifeJailLawsuitBlack GuysLove My WifeI Love My Wife Author:Mike Tyson
“There is a very palpable difference for me between some of my earlier songs and where my later work has gone. If I were making my dream set list for tonight's show, I'm probably not going to include a whole bunch of stuff from the album that I made when I was 23.” IfsMadeWholeShowsDreamSongStuffDifferencesGoneAlbumsListsBunchTonight Author:Mirah
“I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know, maybe 100 Batman stories a year, and the character turns 70 years old in May. It's incredible: for 70 years, on a weekly basis, every Wednesday, there is some Batman story coming out, if not a bunch of Batman stories coming out.” IfsKnowsYearsMayBookCharacterStoriesArtistTurnsBasesIncrediblesBunchComicAdmirationEditorsComing OutComic BookWednesdayAdmiration And Respect Author:Michael Uslan
“I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingSocialStuffImagineSticksPhonesMeaningfulBunchCellsPlatformsCell Phone Author:Biz Stone
“In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.” WayFunStrangeBunchMagicianWizardsAlchemist Author:Billy Joel
“I get really excited about collaborating because by the end of the day you have something that you never thought you'd have. I was really happy about writing "Bad News" and a bunch of other stuff on the record that came out so well.” WritingWellsEndsStuffRecordsNewsExcitedBunchThe End Of The DayGet RealBad NewsReally HappyCollaborating Author:Orianthi
“I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.” Would BeKidsWinningBe GoodLovelyBunchAmbitiousFamily LifeHappy FamilyGrammy Author:Bat for Lashes
“I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative. This writer will avoid using too many words like "possibly," "probably," "maybe," "perhaps," etc. He/she will avoid using clichés, as well as a lot of metaphors, and won't take four sentences to say what they could in one (or write a great sentence and follow it up with a bunch of stuff that just weakens it).” IfsWritingWellsReadingLanguageStuffFourMetaphorSentencesBunchNarrativeI've LearnedEtcSlush Author:Mary J. Miller
“Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.” ThinkingNightLiteratureSoundSavedBarsBunchCornyDopeWrong Direction Author:T.C. Boyle
“Shooting videos with lots of effects is like shooting a bunch of puzzle pieces.” PiecesEffectsVideoBunchShootingPuzzlesPuzzle Piece Author:Hiro Murai
“A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.” MeanStoriesTogetherSongEmotionalConversationMy FavoriteAffectionBunchNarrativeCollectionsSparesMixtapesSpare Change Author:Anthony Marra
“It's funny how you can look back in life and there are all these 'if's' - if this hadn't happened would I have been here? If I hadn't done this would I have ended up talking to you? It's funny how life is seriously just a bunch of those moments.” IfsLooksHas BeensDoneMomentsLife IsTalkingHappenedBunch Author:Lights
“If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayPastParentMemoriesPhotographBunchRecallsCharmingOur PastUnclesAuntYour PastOur MemoriesDrawersDisconnectedPostmanOld Photographs Author:Gail Zappa
“I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't know if this was ever truly the case, but I don't feel that I need to decide between playing for a sit-down, totally silent audience and playing for a bunch of noisy, drunk people in a bar. What I do with the group is somewhere in between.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsFeelsPlayBlackWhiteCasesAudienceGroupsBandSilentBarsBunchDrunkHallsDivisionConcertsBlack And WhiteNoisyDrunk People Author:Missy Mazzoli
“You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of copies and then you'll have the money to do the kind of writing you want to do"? I always say that I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that. It would be just as hard for me to do that kind of writing as it would be to learn how to do any number of productive careers that I can't manage to make myself do.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingKindI CanHardWould BeRomanceNumbersCareersNovelKnow HowSkillsSellsBunchManageProductiveCopiesRomance Novel Author:Lucy Corin
“In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.” WorldIdeasRealBunchSuspicious Author:Rachel Kushner
“I've seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that's in the trap. They'll throw you a pair of Jordans or a moneybag for their services. It's in that moment where most compromise. This business is unforgivable, and you got a bunch of sharks out there. It's mind boggling that universities don't prepare athletes for what they're going to experience.” MenMindMomentsYoungCollegeUniversityAthleteBunchCompromiseYoung ManNflPairsThat MomentBitesCheeseTrapsJordanSharksUnforgivableMind Boggling Author:Eddie George
“I'm also a sucker for a view. Take me to a high place where I can see the landscape or the stars or the whole city, and I'm putty, I'm melting in your arms. Then I think having a romantic night, getting a little dressed up, but don't kill yourself trying to force the romance. A bunch of little subtle changes that will make the day more special will amount to a big awesome day in your memory. I like little breadcrumbs along the way. Draw it out!” ThinkingWayTryingLittlesI CanWholeBigsRomanceNightForceStarsMemoriesViewsCitiesSpecialArmsAmountDrawsBunchLandscapeSubtleTake MeOur MemoriesMeltingSuckerDressed UpKilling YourselfHigh Places Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I'll say about Fueled By Ramen is, I don't know what anyone else's experience has been, but we signed to them as Fun. We already had a fanbase, we already had music out there so when they signed us they were signing our vision. I always think it's so weird when people think that Fueled By Raman are trying to change us or mould us into something else, as we weren't a bunch of kids playing in a garage who joined a label and then collectively worked on a vision, like, they signed us with the intention of letting us be Fun.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingHas BeensKidsFunVisionIntentionBunchLabelsGarageSigningMouldTrying To ChangeKids PlayingRamen Author:Jack Antonoff
“I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.” SpecialReturnCaughtStoresVideoBunchDelusionTapeTowers Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame.” AbleWantedGoalAchieveFameBunch Author:Boris Kodjoe
“I started taking classes and doing things that I had always wanted to do but couldn't because I was working. I signed up for a bunch of workout classes, and to my surprise, I realized I was enjoying it. Because I was working out so much, I started looking for more workout clothes and found a lot of redundancy - predictability that was uninspired. That's when I decided to start my own line.” WantedFoundEnjoyLinesMy OwnClassClothesDecidedSurpriseWork OutI RealizedBunchWorkoutPredictabilityRedundancyUninspiredWorkout Clothes Author:Dayna Devon
“An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other people, the next day. I found it very unpleasant.” PeopleWritingHomeNextActorsFoundStuffBunchNext Day Author:Johnny Depp
“The game was much like our season. This game tested our toughness, our resilience, our unselfishness. It's only fitting that it turned out this way. This is a great bunch of guys to play with. I feel very, very grateful.” WayFeelsPlayGuyGamesSeasonsGratefulResilienceBunchTestedFittingToughnessUnselfishness Author:Peyton Manning
“So many times nowadays it's about having two good songs on an album and a bunch of filler, and I wanted to make something that I felt every song on the album was fun for everybody.” TwoWantedSongFunFeltAlbumsBunchFillers Author:Corbin Bleu
“Zombies - obviously they're doing it in a much more expansive way on The Walking Dead - basically, what you used to do is you put a bunch of goo on an actor and have them shamble towards you, and it's a very effective creature. It always has tremendous impact, just that feeling of death coming for you; that's universally accepted.” WayFeelingsUsedActorsWalkingCreaturesImpactAcceptedBunchZombieWalking DeadDeath Coming Author:David Hayter
“I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more. It's very much a "Weird Al" themed issue, so I'd like to think that there's a lot of "Weird Al" flavor throughout but I think it'd be generous really to call me an editor.” ThinkingHelpingAbleIssuesPiecesCoupleMy FriendsGreenCome UpBunchMagazinesGenerousCall MeAlsEditorsArticlesFlavorEmoWeird Al Author:Al Yankovic
“One thing about Andy Warhol that was remarkable and also key to his widespread appeal is that he was so open! He would get on the phone and talk to the kid who called to say he was a fan - you know, Andy would walk from his house every morning down to the Factory carrying a bunch of Interviews - people would stop him and he would sign them, and what have you.” PeopleKnowsKidsHouseWalksMorningOne ThingFansKeysPhonesBunchAppealsInterviewsRemarkableFactoriesEvery MorningWarhol Author:Bob Colacello
“My step-dad started playing hockey in Detroit so we moved and I had to start home school. I started watching movies since I had a bunch of free time and then I was like, 'You know what? I want to give this a shot, move back to L.A., and audition.' The first show I booked was a show called Threshold with Carla Gugino and it was obviously a terrifying experience and I felt out of my comfort zone, but it made me want to keep going because it was fun.” KnowsWantGivingFirstsMadeShowsHomeSchoolMovingFunFeltStepsLike YouDadComfortShotsMovedBunchZoneKeep GoingHockeyComfort ZoneAuditionsDetroitThresholdFree TimePlaying HockeyStep Dad Author:Steven R. McQueen
“I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to buy it, but it's a National Treasure, so I couldn't. If you cannot buy it, just photograph it!” IfsFeelsI CanAgeWantedUniverseEnergyPolicyExampleToolsStonesPhotographStudiosTreasureBunchCollectionsFragmentsPotteryDebrisStone AgeNational Treasure Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was shocking to find a parallel history to that - a bunch of Americans with very different priorities. I stumbled on to these people, and then became completely fixated on them. The question that drove me was: how did these reasonable people adopt these extremely unreasonable ideas?” PeopleIdeasDifferentTermDevelopmentCapitalismPrioritiesBunchErasReasonableIndividualismShockingFree MarketParallelsUnreasonableVictorianFree Market Capitalism Author:Christine Jennings
“CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.” IfsFeelsWellsRealDoneRiskComputerBunchCartoonCgi Author:Karen Allen
“With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.” PeopleWayShowsBunchBeing Funny Author:B. J. Porter
“We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp.” FilmMillionsColorExcitedBunchLampsSonyLavaLava Lamps Author:Peter Sagal
“Utah is close to becoming the latest state to legalize medical marijuana.But one DEA agent raised the alarm in front of the Utah legislature. He warned them that rabbits might eat the weed. And then what would you have? You'd have a bunch of weed-crazed rabbits running around. They'd run rampant in the state's cornfields and taco orchards.” StatesMightRunningFrontsBecomingRaisedMedicalBunchAgentsWeedMarijuanaRabbitsAlarmsLegislatureOrchardUtahTacosMedical Marijuana Author:Peter Sagal
“I was once in a bar with a friend of mine, we were having a drink and a bunch of people walked in and they were talking about how, "It's official, there's going to be a 'Friends' reunion," and I'm sitting there with my friend going, "No, no, there's not."” PeopleTalkingMinesDrinkSittingMy FriendsBarsBunchOfficialsReunion Author:Marta Kauffman
“I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.” TryingWholeBigsNamesCompanyPathFiveFourProveResearchDown AndSignificantScalesBunchDozenProve ItFinancing Author:Bill Gates
“As a young actor, there's a very small group of kids, just a handful. As you get older, all of a sudden, there's a bunch of guys your age that work. It's a very different experience when you used to be on the short list because you were young and there's only so many kids that can do the work and then all of a sudden you're in your twenties and thirties and there's a whole bunch of guys that can do your work.” DifferentWholeKidsAgeYoungUsedGuyActorsCan DoGroupsTwentiesListsBunchUsed To BeWorking ItHandfulSmall GroupsYoung ActorsDifferent Experiences Author:Ricky Schroder
“There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's all of these people who think that they've saved his life, and really care about him because they've embraced him and they've been his saviors. In "Fight Club" it's all of these people who are dying of various diseases, and they thought that Edward Norton was also dying so they allowed him really strong pent-up emotions.” PeopleThinkingWholeCareFightingStrongSocialEmotionDyingDiseaseVariousClubsSavedBunchContractsSaviorDeceivedChokeProtagonistsSocial ContractPeople Who Are Dying Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you have to get to that moment, and that takes supreme focus.” MomentsStoriesRememberPurposeStuffFocusHappeningsSupremeBunchThat Moment Author:Taron Egerton
“I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingYearsMindChildrenRealLastsFatherDecisionBehindsCompanyFiveMinutesGiving UpBuiltSickOur ChildrenDollarsBunchOur WorldFive MinutesGreat PowerMaking DecisionsSidelinesBusiness World Author:Donald Trump, Jr.
“I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that's their team.” PeopleIfsMeanShowsNightWeekTeamTelevisionWindMaterialsSittingBunchHostEvery NightTelevision ShowsPayrollDays Of The WeekLetterman Author:Bruce Vilanch
“I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, "Wow." I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting.” ThinkingRealFeelingsJobsRememberCollegeExcitingPaidBunchMagazinesInterviewsWowReal Jobs Author:Jodie Foster
“Part of the concept of the euro zone was to establish a common market. The banks were going to bank across all their countries like we bank across states. But that concept got killed for a whole bunch of reasons that I won't get into. That was a good concept, by the way. It may yet return, because there are huge economies of scale in banking. That's another thing people don't quite get.” PeopleWayMayCountryStatesReasonWholeCommonEconomyHugeReturnConceptsScalesBunchZoneBankingEuro Author:Jamie Dimon
“Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.” MayDifferentProductsInvestmentBunchCorporateAmerican BusinessGoldman SachsCitibank Author:Jamie Dimon
“I have never played a superhero in real life and I would imagine it is very different Voiceover is super easy. You just come in and do a bunch of versions of it and then the animators and directors on that side of the movie put your performance together.” DifferentRealTogetherEasySidesImagineDirectorsPerformancesReal LifeBunchVersionsSuperheroAnimator Author:Jeremy Sisto
“Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.” IfsKindWould BeSongBehindsRocksDrivenBunchRock And RollMomentumLyricalDestroyersMoody Author:Dan Bejar