Christopher Lasch Quotes

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Christopher Lasch

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• I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Joy

• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Relationship

• We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Part
  • Turn

• Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Knowledge
  • Noise
  • Both

• It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Try
  • One Word

• My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Dad
  • Chance

• The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Best
  • Advice

• 'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Good
  • Doubt
  • Beyond

• I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Important
  • War
  • Taken

• There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • World
  • Me
  • Opportunities

• I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Good
  • Work
  • Blessing

• Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Fan
  • Well
  • Courtroom

• The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Feeling
  • Reason
  • Win

• A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Dress

• I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Group

• In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Control

• Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

  

  William Penn
  • Father
  • Fall
  • Loss

• My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Family
  • Amazing

• I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.

  

  Jemima Kirke
  • Women
  • Family
  • Friends

• The preppy look has gone global- every corner of the world interprets it in a different way.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • World
  • Different
  • Way

• We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

  

  Christopher Lasch