Christopher Lasch Quotes

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

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• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Strengths
  • Connecting

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• All the terrorists are basically migrants.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Terrorists
  • Basically

• So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

  

  Feist
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Simple

• Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Politics
  • Places
  • Brooklyn

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• I'm the best Twitterer.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Best

• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.

  

  OMI
  • Appreciation
  • Been
  • Far

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Job
  • Health

• Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Family
  • Day
  • Christmas

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  

  Ice T
  • Country
  • Los Angeles
  • United

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Friends
  • America
  • Together

• Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Forest

• ... the state of a really big system does not at all have to have the symmetry of the laws which govern it; in fact, it usually has less symmetry.

  

  Philip Warren Anderson

• You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Sing
  • Build

• Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Today