Peter Brimelow Quotes

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

Peter Brimelow

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• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Lies

• And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • War
  • Say
  • Japanese

• The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Mark

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Accomplish

• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • English
  • Kid
  • Talk

• If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • You
  • Dollar
  • Rug

• In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Question
  • Best
  • Information

• I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • House
  • Black

• I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Long
  • Why
  • Breakfast

• You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me. (Interview Magazine 2000).

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Beer

• If Donald Trump wants to harm cities and the people who call them home, he'll have to come through me.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Home
  • Trump

• The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Book
  • Future

• If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Lost
  • Focus
  • Justice

• Fortunately, I have always played younger than what I am.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy

• You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

  

  Emanuel Steward
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I think I have never seen a humorless movie that was any good to me.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Good
  • Movie

• It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Hair

• I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was going to Barcelona on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream Team Quarterfinals.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • American
  • Dream
  • Team

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society. This narrative is so devoid of historical context that it should embarrass anyone beyond a second-grade education.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Good
  • America
  • Society

• This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

  

  Peter Brimelow
  • Immigration