James Fallows Quotes

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

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• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Story

• I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Friends
  • White
  • Hip Hop

• I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

  

  Mae West
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Loved

• You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Running
  • Opinion

• I'm a good friend.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Good Friend

• What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine,The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought a faith's pure shrine.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • War
  • Faith

• In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • America
  • Black

• 'You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Time
  • She
  • Happy

• You are my fav'rite star, My haven in heaven above, You are ev'rything I love.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Star
  • Heaven

• There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Period

• I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Good

• When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

  

  Frankie Avalon

• Obviously I'd love to see Demetrious Johnson, you know, 'Demetrious Johnson $500,000 payout baby,' absolutely.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Baby

• Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Car

• I've conditioned myself to believe that almonds are a completely delicious snack, and that they don't taste like paper or get stuck in the back of my mouth.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Believe

• When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Mind
  • Buddha

• The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Kids

• know that without night there is no day; without lies, no truth;without despair,no hope. Beware above all of hate, but call to its opposite too. For all things have an opposite and, if you choose it, with will and care, you may turn one thing into its reflection.

  

  David Clement-Davies
  • Care
  • Things
  • Lying

• The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Be Free

• The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Kids
  • Medicare
  • Obligations

• I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

  

  James Fallows