Ethan Canin Quotes

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Action
  • Growth
  • Balance

• I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Good
  • Daily

• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Period
  • Teen
  • Intense

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Trust
  • Bank
  • Bitcoin

• I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Artist
  • Never
  • Effort

• I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Friends
  • True
  • Friend

• Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

  

  Kim Il-sung

• Living in a system under the Communist ideology, an artist cannot avoid fighting for freedom of expression. You always have to be aware that art is not only a self-expression but a demonstration of human rights and dignity. To express yourself freely, a right as personal as it is, has always been difficult, given the political situation.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art
  • Political
  • Freedom

• Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

  

  Donald Johanson

• Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Chicago

• A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Celebrity

• I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

  

  Pete Stark
  • War
  • City
  • Smart

• We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Family
  • Distance
  • Blood

• The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

  

  James Baldwin
  • People
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

• Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

  

  Allan Douglass Coleman
  • World
  • Photography
  • Makers

• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Book
  • Mood
  • Fact

• A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Happy
  • Drama
  • Smart

• You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Book
  • Smart
  • Publicity