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Chicks who dig home runs aren’t the ones who appeal to me. I think there’s sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I’d rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.
— Ichiro Suzuki, in a NY Times article about him approaching 200 hits for a major-league record 9th straight season.

3 months ago

August 22, 2009
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I tell them that any time you decide to forward something, you are making a big decision. You are putting your reputation in real life and in cyberspace on the line.
— Sreenath Sreenivasan, a new media professor at the Columbia Journalism School, in a NY Times article about how news about events like Michael Jackson’s and Neda Agha-Soltan’s deaths spread on the Internet before being handled by traditional news outlets.

5 months ago

July 12, 2009
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In America, there are a limited number of people who can be called readers. […] In Japan, the ordinary citizen likes to read — reading is seen as entertainment and has been since the 16th and 17th centuries. In America, there seems to be a psychological barrier for people to go to a bookstore. Here, it isn’t uncommon, even in the smallest of towns, for people to set a date to meet at a bookstore.
— Tetsu Shirai, deputy executive director of Kodansha International who headed Kodansha America in the 1980’s, in a Jan. 1999 NY Times article about Sawako Noma, who was and still is the president and CEO of Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd.

7 months ago

May 8, 2009
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