Janet Malcolm Quotes

The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

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• I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Age
  • Industry
  • Ageing

• I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Live
  • Want
  • Everything

• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Know

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Want
  • Seriously
  • County

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
  • Environmental

• America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Law
  • Politics

• These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Everything
  • Media
  • Turn

• The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • People
  • Love
  • Boy

• I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Started

• I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • News
  • Involvement
  • Backbone

• I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • People
  • Integrity
  • Loss

• It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • Business
  • Reality

• Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Ideas
  • Wealth
  • Source

• I didn't really have an interest in politics when I first entered the workforce. What I wanted to do was help people who grew up like me. When I was a kid growing up in Tucson, my father lost his job and we lost everything - including our home. We lived in an abandoned gas station for two years until we were able to get back on our feet.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • People
  • Country
  • Job

• Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

  

  Jay Mohr
  • Football

• The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • Job