David Talbot Quotes

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

  

  Becky G
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Everybody

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Me

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Done
  • Party
  • Dance

• I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Country
  • Home
  • Tired

• I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Know

• You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • You
  • Powerful
  • Television

• I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Optimist

• Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Smart
  • Key
  • Resistance

• In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Long
  • Way
  • Childhood

• I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Reading
  • Understanding

• Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gold
  • Smile

• The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Control

• Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Simplicity

• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Broken

• Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sky

• Until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

  

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
  • Man
  • Equality
  • Won

• Jessie J is a great, great girl. I'm a friend and have always been a fan of hers. I'm happy to see her doing her thing.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I feel like when I'm working and when it's not my time off, I like working out alone because it's kind of like that time that my mind gets to just shut off and I can just focus on working on being a better boxer.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Focus

• Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

  

  David Talbot