David Brock Quotes

When you imagine the Koch brothers, it's hard not to think of the 1983 film 'Trading Places,' which featured as its villains a pair of brothers, commodity brokers named Randolph and Mortimer Duke.

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• A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Time
  • Movie
  • House

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Myself
  • Finding
  • Secrecy

• I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Design
  • Start

• I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Reading
  • English
  • Training

• The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Encouraging
  • China

• A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Being
  • Walk
  • Himself

• Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Changes
  • Short
  • Software

• My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Great
  • Want
  • Way

• A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Great
  • Character
  • Three

• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Pleasure

• I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

  

  Patrick White
  • Bad
  • Produce
  • Novels

• All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Childhood
  • Say
  • I Can

• The more our children see men being paid to take responsibility for children, the more respectable it will be for men to do work compatible with their role as dads.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Children

• So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

  

  Anne Lamott
  • Life
  • Up

• We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • People

• When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Why
  • Thoughts

• Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Lonely

• A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Pretty

• When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject - if I have a serious interest in it.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Serious

• Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Women
  • High
  • Game

• When you imagine the Koch brothers, it's hard not to think of the 1983 film 'Trading Places,' which featured as its villains a pair of brothers, commodity brokers named Randolph and Mortimer Duke.

  

  David Brock