Ethan Canin Quotes

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Ethan Canin

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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Live
  • Freedom

• The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Magical

• A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Nation

• Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Feel Good

• No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Good
  • Different
  • Why

• You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Freedom
  • Die

• I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Good
  • Good Life

• 'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reality

• I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • Life
  • Good
  • History

• I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

  

  David Liss
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• My hair looks so good out in the desert, it's unbelievable. It's, like, perfectly not frizzy.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Desert

• I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.

  

  April Bloomfield
  • Good
  • Work
  • Forever

• Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

  

  Charlie Dent
  • May
  • America
  • Freedom

• Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Good
  • Women
  • Experience

• America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Health

• Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

  

  Lou Rawls
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.

  

  Megan Smith
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Technology

• Mitt is tough. He is smart. He is sharp. He is not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this country that we all love. So Gov. Romney, go out and get em. You can do it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Smart

• To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Force