Katharine Viner Quotes

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Katharine Viner

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• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Black
  • Intellectual
  • Clear

• It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Voice
  • Credit

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Father
  • Best
  • Chemistry

• I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Why
  • You
  • Own

• As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Great
  • Film
  • Adventure

• First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Important
  • Trying

• I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Powerful
  • Moment
  • Stand

• Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Future
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Kid

• Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Good
  • Prove
  • Illness

• In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Thinking
  • Agree
  • Alabama

• There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Want
  • Space
  • Mountain

• I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Energy
  • Chaos
  • Ride

• I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Up
  • You
  • End

• We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Feel

• When people say I'm a star, I don't believe it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Believe
  • Star

• I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • High
  • Education
  • California

• How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Team
  • Soccer

• Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it.

  

  Chris Riddell
  • Drawing

• Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Men
  • Beauty
  • Explosives

• That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Force
  • Human Reason
  • Embodiment

• and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • People
  • Heart
  • Kids

• In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same - whether they come from a credible source or not.

  

  Katharine Viner