Kurt Eichenwald Quotes

There have been times that I have found myself in places, and I don't know how I got there, and I don't actually know where I am.

Kurt Eichenwald

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Writing
  • Tragedy
  • Three

• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Like
  • Adult

• My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Film
  • First
  • Crush

• I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Going
  • Satisfied
  • Keeps

• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Strong
  • You
  • I Can

• Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

  

  T-Pain
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Doing

• North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • Internet

• People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Goal
  • Ask

• I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fun

• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Govern

• A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Hate
  • Emotional
  • Leadership

• Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Game
  • Games
  • Selfish

• I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Work
  • School
  • Together

• My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Dad

• The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Faith
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Long
  • Done
  • Why

• I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Ocean

• What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

  

  Lord Mountbatten
  • Job
  • King

• So ist vielmehr der Fall, daß das Volk, insosern mit diesem Worte ein besonderer Theil der Mitglieder eines Staats bezeichnet ist, den Theil ausdrückt, der nicht weiß was er will.1

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Fall

• An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Popular

• If you want to see the love of your life, look in the mirror.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Life
  • Mirror

• There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small or silver screens or in museums or best-selling books, and much of what gets ignored in the mainstream thrives, and is celebrated, on Twitter.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Black
  • Small

• There have been times that I have found myself in places, and I don't know how I got there, and I don't actually know where I am.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald