Joe Klein Quotes
We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.
Quotes to Explore
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
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My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.
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I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.
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I have always admired the way women put outfits together.
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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
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I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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Work hard.
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We are living in a world which seems to be founded on the refusal to reflect.
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I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn’t have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear.
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I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
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They have so many great horror movies made in the '80s. I mean, the old-school horror is so good.
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In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
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My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.
