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

• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Spring
  • Year

• 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

• If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Trying
  • Problem

• 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

• He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Eyes
  • Ugly
  • Really

• 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

• So many times, genuine health workers and genuine NGO folks are really just trying to help other humans in whatever capacity they can. But they are perceived as being CIA, and therefore, it blocks their effectiveness.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Health

• There is this incredible, indelible community that has sprung up around the show, a community that gathers in homes and clubs, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kansas and around the world. A community that, in some places, meets quietly in a lesbian bar that doesn’t even exist depending on whom you ask.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

  

  John Calvin
  • Hearts
  • Pray
  • Prosperity

• I am right where I want to be-in the playoffs, and happy about it.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Playoffs

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

  

  David Talbot