George F. Kennan Quotes

I am like a person who has placed poison in one of two glasses before a person he loves-and looks back upon his act with horror and incredulity-but still does not know from which glass the person will drink.

George F. Kennan

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• There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
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• Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Think
  • Style
  • Democracy

• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Life
  • Think
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• Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Giving
  • Honesty

• I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Enough
  • Apple
  • iPhone

• Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
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  • Everyone

• Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Real
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• I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • People
  • Me
  • Reason

• Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Matter
  • Write
  • Problems

• Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Started
  • Negotiating

• while lighting a fire on the beach Fuck! Go to Alaska! No, no, no, no. You fucking asshole ocean! No!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Fire
  • Ocean
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• If you're squeezed for information,that's when you've got to play it dumb:You just say you're out there waitingfor the miracle to come.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Miracle
  • Dumb

• I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Small

• 'Sophie's Choice' is actually the reason I became an actress.

  

  Kathryn Morris

• This is not rocket science. Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people they're trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively use the Internet. For the artists, my ass... I didn't ask them to protect me, and I don't want their protection.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • People
  • Trying
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• The Internet is corporations all the way down.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Internet
  • Corporations

• If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Breathe

• But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Voice
  • Act
  • Depend

• It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Reason
  • Intuition

• I am like a person who has placed poison in one of two glasses before a person he loves-and looks back upon his act with horror and incredulity-but still does not know from which glass the person will drink.

  

  George F. Kennan