Joe Klein Quotes
You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.Joe Klein
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
Adam Hicks -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
Aaron Neville -
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
Pat Barker -
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
Gareth Gates -
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen -
One rose says more than the dozen.
Wendy Craig -
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
Malcolm X -
I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
Kajal Aggarwal -
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
Jack Dee
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith -
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken -
My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
T. J. Miller -
There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
Taylor Hanson Hanson
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There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.
Mike Tyson -
When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.
Parker Palmer -
In 'Winter Soldier' - in terms of character-based, 'Winter Soldier' was so specifically for us: everything in that movie was designed around that version of Captain America that we wanted to see, that we wanted to explore. Everything in that film, all of the stylistic choices just flow from that.
Joe Russo -
You can't hide God in you. God was not meant to become part of you, and you hide out in the closet. I don't think He wanted that. I think He wanted people to see the Christ in you that reflects Him.
Lou Brock -
I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
Jesse Ventura -
You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.
Joe Klein