Bret Stephens Quotes

I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.

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• When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Idea
  • Starting
  • Studying

• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Experience
  • American
  • Black

• Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Mean

• But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Years
  • Broken

• Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Rules

• Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• We will stand by the Paris climate deal.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Paris
  • Will
  • Stand

• In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Star

• We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Character
  • Want
  • Too Much

• The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Man
  • Model

• I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Work
  • Different
  • Trying

• What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • People
  • Nature
  • Doubt

• I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Better
  • Sun
  • Sun Shines

• The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Cooking
  • Forgiveness

• Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Loyalty

• That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• Mostly, I think of myself as having great common sense. I've always been proud of that. Was I a terrific student? Absolutely not. But put me in a roomful of people, and I don't think I'm ever going to embarrass myself.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Proud

• I have to slow down for some people. In Louisiana, people didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I remember seeing people glaze over. Seeing the moment where they've just completely lost all... They just wait for me to stop talking and then say, 'Yeah.'

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • People
  • Remember
  • Lost

• To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Health
  • Wisdom
  • Duty

• It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Speech
  • Cave
  • Materia Prima

• I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Men
  • Band
  • Option

• I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.

  

  Bret Stephens