Bret Stephens Quotes

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

Bret Stephens

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• I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Career
  • Suffering
  • Enjoy

• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Important
  • House

• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Period

• It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Good
  • Home
  • Help

• It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Me
  • Years
  • Drafts

• Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Cutting

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  

  Karen O
  • Amazing
  • Rock
  • Star

• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Become
  • Seeing
  • Structure

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Father
  • Peace
  • Storm

• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Wish

• An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Author
  • Characters
  • Wants

• The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Fire

• My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Dad
  • Boy
  • Doing

• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Land
  • Over
  • Edge

• The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Person
  • Years
  • First

• The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

  

  Lesley Nicol

• Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Cool
  • Mountain

• For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.

  

  Lisa Hanawalt
  • Up
  • Art
  • Food

• Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Age
  • Soul
  • Education

• Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Food
  • Insecurity