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

• Nobody who knows me would believe this, but I was always the life of the party. Oh, how I loved to sing and dance, and we had good times. Good clean fun it was, too.

  

  Alex Spanos
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Party

• Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,Gold that I never see;Lie long, high snowdrifts in the hedgeThat will not shower on me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Long
  • High
  • Gold

• I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Listening

• You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

  

  Edward Charles Ford
  • Baseball
  • October
  • Yankees

• The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington

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

  

  John Avlon