If my journey through the world of public perception was Alice in Wonderland, Puffy was the Cheshire Cat, with his ability to seem to be everywhere at once, asking perplexing questions, and who sometimes helped Alice, and then darted in and out of her journey.
"Will this movie help educate the masses?" a staffer at The Nation once asked me.
A New York book publisher, and Harvard grad at that, once asked me if I ever take the ferry from Washington state up to Alaska for the afternoon.
Joann Elmore, a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington Harborview Medical Center, once asked ten board-certified radiologists to look at a hundred and fifty mammograms — of which twenty-seven had come from women who developed breast cancer, and a hundred and twenty-three from women who were known to have been healthy.
Joann Elmore, a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington Harborview Medical Center, once asked ten board-certified radiologists to look at a hundred and fifty mammograms of which twenty-seven had come from women who developed breast cancer, and a hundred and twenty-three from women who were known to have been healthy.
A CEO at Goldman Sachs was once asked what it was he did, Harvey recalls.
At school, he once asked what he thought was a perfectly reasonable question.
Nick Ovenden, a mathematics lecturer at University College London, was once asked by a PR company to create the formula for the perfect tennis serve.
According to a federal complaint unsealed last week, Moore often engaged in online chats while on duty at the White House, once asking an undercover officer who he thought was a 14-year-old girl to send him something "exciting" on a day when he was checking IDs for a building entrance and complained that "work sucks today".
"A friend of mine at a meeting once asked, 'Can elites have families?' And you wanted to say, 'Boy, they had better, if they want to stay sane.' I just have the conviction we get bad thinking and bad results from people whose whole experience in life has been wrapped up in a particular corner of work".
