“One of the nice things about being me is you show up in a town, you meet somebody interesting and entertaining, and for 48 hours, what a wonderful person to be around. You mess around, and all of that is super, super fun, and you don't have to deal with the long-term consequences of it.” PersonsLongShowsFunTermHoursInterestingDealsNiceWonderfulConsequenceTownsMessLong TermEntertainingBeing MeNice Things48 HoursWonderful Person Author:Guy Branum
“Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."” IfsMeanPersonsFilmEasyWonderfulDirectors Author:Vin Diesel
“When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of self-preservation.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsSelfFeltPathTakenWonderfulHeroArticlesPreservationRespondingNew YorkersSelf PreservationWonderful Person Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me.” PersonsSaidDoubtWonderfulTroubleLuxuryExplanationHumanistSkepticismSecularQuotationsTribesCongregation Author:Kurt Vonnegut