Bret Stephens Quotes

My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.

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• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Day
  • First

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Different
  • You
  • Always

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • You
  • Find
  • Look

• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Way
  • Swing
  • Bat

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Path
  • Same

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Learn

• I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Deep
  • Victory
  • Ending

• To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • World
  • Money
  • End

• Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

  

  Joe Namath
  • Family
  • College
  • Sports

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Imagination

• If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.

  

  James Inhofe
  • American

• My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Reading