Bill Keller Quotes

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

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• Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Consensus

• I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Man
  • Beat
  • Earned

• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Control
  • Best

• The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Society
  • Balanced
  • Must

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lies
  • inspirational
  • Comparison

• I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • World
  • Myself
  • Find

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Crime
  • Fault
  • Indifference

• I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Good
  • Death

• Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Brain

• The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Job
  • City

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
  • Die
  • Young

• I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • American
  • Might
  • Filmmaker

• This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • May
  • Forget

• Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Think
  • Own
  • Even

• Ever since I was 15, I've tried to act and talk as if I was a public figure because I was sure that I would be one day and wanted to be prepared.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Day
  • One Day
  • Be Prepared

• Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Practice
  • Service

• In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Democracy

• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  

  Peter Benchley

• If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Moon

• Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

  

  David McFadden
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

  

  Bill Keller