James Fallows Quotes

The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain- Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

James Fallows

• Tax
• Hillary Clinton
• Reduction
• Gasoline

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• I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Decision
  • Religion
  • Thought

• Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Same
  • Even
  • Though

• I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.

  

  Randy Moss
  • School
  • Guy
  • Able

• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
  • Pressure

• He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Happiness
  • He
  • Complaint

• Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Funny
  • Mean
  • Being

• 'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Road
  • Travel

• I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • Life
  • Important
  • Remember

• People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Doing
  • Tradition

• I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Men
  • Job
  • Truth

• Dancing is a beautiful thing.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Beautiful
  • Thing
  • Dancing

• I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Unique

• It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Important
  • Women
  • Aesthetic

• I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Want
  • Find

• But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Computer
  • Point
  • Reader

• It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Me
  • Kiss
  • Tell

• I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • World
  • Myself
  • Best

• Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Believe
  • She
  • Thought

• I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Conversation

• The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Economy
  • Year
  • Tax

• In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.

  

  Bill Gates
  • History
  • Texas
  • Gasoline

• The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain- Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

  

  James Fallows
  • Tax
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Reduction