Bret Stephens Quotes
I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.Bret Stephens
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
Walker Percy -
Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
Patricia Reilly Giff -
If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
Naftali Bennett -
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
J. Philippe Rushton -
I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
Taylor Momsen -
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
Tablo
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
Patrick M. Byrne -
Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
Talulah Riley -
I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
Rachel Bilson -
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
Adam Brody -
Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
Foster Friess -
I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
J. R. Smith
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.
Lana Turner -
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Dan Brown -
Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
Lara Spencer -
Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
Carlos Slim -
It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.
Kirby Smart
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca -
Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Anita Roddick -
I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.
Bret Stephens