What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.


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MICHAEL ARRINGTON
You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN
A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
MICHAEL FROME
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN
For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha...
MICHAEL KORDA
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER
You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO
I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA
Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA
We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN
When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN
You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER
As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER
Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari...
MICHAEL DIRDA
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON
In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f...
MICHAEL KORDA
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho...
MICHAEL ENDE
In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ...
MICHAEL KORDA
Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab...
MICHAEL GREGER
T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ...
MICHAEL KORDA
I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE
I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI
Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot...
MICHAEL PATERNITI
I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.
MICHAEL LANDES
Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI
I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were...
MICHAEL BERGIN
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of ge...
MICHAEL POLLAN
Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. ...
MICHAEL GREGER
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo...
MICHAEL BOND
I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in...
MICHAEL STRAHAN
Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills,...
MICHAEL MOSS
I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
MICHAEL GOVE
I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front li...
MICHAEL CONNELLY
I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a sy...
MICHAEL PHELPS
Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ...
MICHAEL MOORE
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel exclude...
MICHAEL MEDVED
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if...
MICHAEL KORDA
Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionall...
MICHAEL DIRDA
The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. ...
MICHAEL WEATHERLY
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the re...
MICHAEL LEUNIG