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

• A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Fighting
  • Consequences
  • Dominate

• A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • May

• The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Positive
  • Thoughts
  • Thinker

• The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.

  

  Auguste Escoffier
  • People
  • Work
  • Law

• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Great
  • War
  • Day

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

  

  John Avlon