John Gregory Dunne Quotes

There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis.

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• I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Always
  • Really
  • Rhythm

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reading

• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • Want
  • Young

• The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Great
  • You
  • Year

• Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • History
  • Death

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • People
  • Know
  • Like

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • College
  • Fashion
  • Star

• Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Change

• If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Reason
  • Explore
  • Ballet

• One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Problem
  • Drug
  • Public

• My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Free
  • Practice

• The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.

  

  Jane Green
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Cool

• I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Night

• You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Literature
  • Read
  • Judgment

• There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis.

  

  John Gregory Dunne
  • Literature