John Avlon Quotes

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

John Avlon

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• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Want
  • Success
  • Personal

• How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

  

  Halima Aden
  • World
  • Same
  • Everyone

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Think
  • Need

• I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Want
  • You

• I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Work
  • Different
  • Character

• The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Success
  • Culture
  • Happiness

• Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Great
  • Life Is Hard

• I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Up
  • Age
  • Player

• I'm mad for satin.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mad
  • Satin

• You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Idea

• Neither men nor women are exempt from killing loved ones. The difference is in what happens to them when they do. Twelve distinct female-only defenses allow a woman who commits a premeditated murder to have the charges dropped or significantly reduced. No man has successfully used any of these defenses in similar circumstances.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• 'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'

  

  Arthur Scargill
  • Life
  • Power
  • Father

• We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

  

  Lynn Fontanne
  • Bored

• Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

  

  David Herbert Donald

• You know where the people who killed people in San Bernardino came from. You know where people who did 9/11 came from. You know where the people who did Paris came from, where they transited, where they went. None of them even set foot in Iran. So why are you punishing people who are visiting Iran for that? . . . We're not going to radicalize them. We never have. Your allies have radicalized people who visited.

  

  Mohammad Javad Zarif
  • People
  • Knows
  • Feet

• Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me.

  

  Lee Hazlewood
  • Giving
  • Fly
  • Phoenix

• The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Education
  • Simple

• I don't know life without vandalism. It's an ongoing thing.

  

  Amy Johnson
  • Life
  • Ongoing
  • Vandalism

• One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

  

  John Avlon