Katharine Viner Quotes

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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

• Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.

  

  John Calvin
  • Men
  • Money
  • Earth

• A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.

  

  Madeleine de Scudery
  • Men
  • Jealousy
  • Jealous Man

• Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Long
  • Prayer
  • Gospel

• I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Time
  • Discovery
  • Fishing

• I feel an army in my fist.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Army

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

  

  Katharine Viner