A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.


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TIMOTHY SIMONS
There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing gre...
TIMOTHY NOAH
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
TIMOTHY WHITE
To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS
World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
TIMOTHY FERRISS
I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's...
TIMOTHY SIMONS
The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not abo...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
TIMOTHY NOAH
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is jus...
TIMOTHY NOAH
In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of syst...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
Financial crises require governments.
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate th...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use ...
TIMOTHY DALTON
I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We&#...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great a...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT
You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
TIMOTHY LEARY
Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when ...
TIMOTHY NOAH
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
TIMOTHY LEARY
He seems happy. You can joke and talk about it. He says he's ready to die. Doesn't seem to bother hi...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
TIMOTHY NOAH
Any time that we read a script and the 'Leverage' team has to infiltrate a place, assume ide...
TIMOTHY HUTTON
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
TIMOTHY NOAH
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the impr...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Michael Fortier was charged with every charge we could convict him of.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
A person who gossips & talks too much may not suffer from Bipolar Disorder but may suffer from V...
TIMOTHY PINA
The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them...
TIMOTHY NOAH
In 'Leverage,' I don't really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an...
TIMOTHY HUTTON
Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
TIMOTHY NOAH
It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - ...
TIMOTHY SPALL
Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.
TIMOTHY NOAH
An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in pr...
TIMOTHY NOAH
When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. S...
TIMOTHY WEST
I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of hous...
TIMOTHY WEST
With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be r...
TIMOTHY HUTTON
Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of Ameri...
TIMOTHY NOAH
When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich...
TIMOTHY NOAH
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to m...
TIMOTHY NOAH
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
TIMOTHY LEARY
The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude t...
TIMOTHY NOAH
If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations th...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Yeah, it was a little slick. But some of these guys when they put helmets on turn into idiots, too.
TIMOTHY PETERS
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America he...
TIMOTHY NOAH
I was always insecure about the way I looked.
TIMOTHY SPALL