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“I am feeling good about Iowa, and I'm feeling good about other states. You can tell how good I feel by how nervous the establishment is getting.”

— Bernie Sanders, Sanders campaign predicting victory in Iowa caucuses

“Millennials are notorious for killing things: the power lunch, diamond sales, breakfast cereal. But all this obsession over what this generation isn’t buying tends to overshadow the fact that, in an increasingly digital world, they are by and large the ones keeping physical media alive.”

— Bonnie Stiernberg, Why Millennials Refuse to Let Go of Physical Media

“I spent most of my life feeling as if I was the only one feeling or thinking a certain way, but writing allowed me to see that I wasn’t alone in those ideas. Whenever I hear from others about how my writing has impacted, comforted, or supported them, it makes me feel even more empowered to keep goin…”

— Lacey Ramburger, Write Now with Lacey Ramburger

“You don’t need to worry about me, I want to whisper. I have created something from nothing here. I have willed a way of life into being. I have found kinship networks in France that nourish me.”

— Catherine Down, Need to Find Me? Ask My Ham Man

“Conventional wisdom says that you shouldn’t loan money to friends… but anyone who tells you that has clearly never tried to book an AirBnb for eight people who live in different states, or asked a waiter to split a bill five ways.”

— Rachel Miller, What to Do When a Friend Owes You Money and Hasn't Paid Up

“Young people might want to stock their kitchens, but many of them also want to post, and it’s possible to kill both those birds with one heavy-bottomed pan.”

— Amanda Mull, The Peak of Domesticity Is a $300 Stand Mixer

“The temptation of performative moral supremacy that many succumb to on social media — i.e., the need to be woker-than-thou — isn’t really about justice either. If anything, in many cases, a person’s moral supremacy starts to look a whole lot like another kind of supremacy.”

— Zaron Burnett III, Who Am I to Tell You How to Mourn Kobe?

“Penn National Gaming has agreed to buy a 36% stake in Barstool Sports for $136 million — a deal that values the company at $450 million.”

— Kendall Baker, Gambling operator Penn National buys $136 million stake in Barstool Sports

“Go back to the hot rural man!”

— Tyler Oakley, Reacting To The Worst & Best Super Bowl Commercials

“I do what I do because it's what I want.”

— Lindy West, Alexandra Rushfield, Hye Yun Park, Aidy Bryant, Fran, Lolly Adefope, Episode 5

“I don't need to figure things out. I like what I'm doing with my life.”

— Hye Yun Park, Alexandra Rushfield, Lindy West, Fran, Lolly Adefope, Episode 5

“You look like a park ranger in a porno.”

— Hye Yun Park, Alexandra Rushfield, Lindy West, Aidy Bryant, Fran, Lolly Adefope, Episode 4

“I was thinking about getting a lava lamp for us, but I didn't want you to be scared that it was real lava.”

— Hye Yun Park, Alexandra Rushfield, Lindy West, Aidy Bryant, Maureen, Jo Firestone, Episode 4

“Being a kid from a small town in Colorado, it’s incredible to see how far my journey with photography has taken me.”

— Forrest Smith, A Book From Forrest Smith....

“The business model, in a nutshell, was to use the internet as a massive focus group to pitch television shows.”

— Kate Knibbs, CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong?

“I think we are dramatically underestimating [cases in China] by tens of thousands.”

— Scott Gottlieb, CDC tells travelers to avoid China in expanded travel warning as coronavirus spreads

“So Love ripped me apart, tore me to pieces, and still I stook like a fool with palms open, begging them for anything to prove they weren't done with me just yet.”

— Clara McGowan, In Which The Poet Defends Dani At The End Of Midsommar

“I feel like that’s where we are right now with boys. They’re getting a profoundly mixed message that is simultaneously more egalitarian and in some ways more restrictive than ever before.”

— Peggy Orenstein, What is going on with America’s boys?

“There’s no need to apply lots of pressure to the blade, as you’ll only shear off extra cells or trim some hairs slightly below the surface of the skin. Lighten your grip, and let the blade glide over top your pre-shave layer and the shave cream. You shouldn’t require multiple passes, either.”

— Adam Hurly, How To Prevent Razor Burn

“Hey, everyone's full of shit, okay? It's doesn't matter.”

— Tami Sagher, Amadi, Ian Owens, Episode 3