Gregg Easterbrook Quotes (38 Quotes)

You need some counterpoint to a big developer. With NRDC and St. Joe facing off with each other, that's relatively equal competition.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

If you are looking for something to complain about, you are absolutely certain to find it. It requires some effort to achieve a happy outlook on life, and most people don't make it. Most people take the path of least resistance. Far too many people today don't make the steps to make their life more fulfilling one.

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious as subtle as summer is obvious as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

I would guess that at the very least that all blogs that are affiliated with an organization are going to be edited, if they're not already.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

Hurricanes became a media obsession in the mid-'90s, when there were two consecutive above-average years for Atlantic storms,

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

I think they completely overreacted by firing me, but in my mind I think this coming a month after Rush Limbaugh had a lot to do with it.

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

When television producers say it is the parents' obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

I view the players as entertainers. Their job is to entertain you, and although an Arizona Cardinals game might not have that effect, most of them do.

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

The Shuttles were nice when we fist made them in 1981, but really they are now 25 years old. ... Who out there is driving 25 year old cars These babies are classics with 100 millions miles on them. Its time to send The Shuttles to museums were they belong. I'm just glad the folks at Shuttle Trader Magazine are there to help NASA unload these turkeys.

ESPN has said that they fired me without having been told to do so by Disney, and I actually believe that. I think they did it on their own.

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

Smart growth' does not have a fixed definition. Phrases like that mean whatever you want them to mean.

The publication date of that book was Sept. 10, 2001. That's why nobody's ever heard of it. Maybe I'll do another one in the future someday.

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

Neither Aristotle nor the Framers were known for self-indulgence. All believed that happiness is a legitimate goal in life perhaps, one of the reasons we are here.