Christopher Lasch Quotes

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Christopher Lasch

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• Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Hero
  • Head
  • Stone

• In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • You
  • Everything
  • Without

• If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Politician
  • Ask

• Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Work
  • Company
  • Performance

• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

  Questlove
  • Know
  • Working
  • Greatest

• Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Long
  • Change
  • Effort

• I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • School
  • Religious
  • Years

• There are a thousand ways to play any role.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Play
  • Ways
  • Thousand

• Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Running

• My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Life
  • Person
  • Educated

• Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Night
  • Paris
  • Now

• I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Small
  • Myself

• All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Work
  • Love
  • Day

• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • Home
  • Strong

• When either sex suppresses the expression of feelings, it’s almost always b/c they don’t feel there is a safe environment to express them.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Environment
  • Sex

• The only thing I'll say in defense of basically the entire conservative media is that, except for a few talk radio hosts, my twitter feed, I guess Brietbart, and Daily Caller is everyone seems to dislike Richard Spencer. He is you know our equivalent of Black Lives Matter. Apparently you know a gay showboater who just wants lots of media attention.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Black
  • Attention
  • Gay

• You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

  

  Chris Terrio
  • People
  • Up

• This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Blooming
  • Love-relationship

• I think that sleep and work are very closely related - not because you can work while you're sleeping and sleep while you're working. That's not really what I mean. I'm talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work
  • Sleep

• A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

  

  Joan Jett

• All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked. Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows, These hold a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better to expect.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • High
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Fear
  • Joy
  • Confidence

• Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

  

  Christopher Lasch