Evan Thomas Quotes
With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.Evan Thomas
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
Jackie DeShannon -
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Orison Swett Marden -
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
J. William Fulbright -
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
Ferran Adria -
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Cao Cao
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
Garry Wills -
My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.
Ian Wright -
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham -
In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
Gail Collins -
I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
Bat for Lashes -
I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
Halston Sage
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Watch the movie closely, and you’ll see how personal it is. Here’s a film in which cinema brings down the Nazi regime, metaphorically and literally. What could possibly be better than that? In this story, cinema changes the world, and I fucking love that idea!
Quentin Tarantino -
Muslim discourse is currently a tissue of myths, conspiracy theories, and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century.
Sam Harris -
When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.
Jason Alexander -
I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.
Margaret Murray -
Your mind is nirvana.
Bodhidharma -
180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!
Emily Procter
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When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.
Alexis Arguello -
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
Jay-Z -
What do yo think human flesh tastes like?
Bill Kaulitz -
I think as an educational institution, at some point during a student's journey, it becomes important to understand the origins of our country, ... To provide that opportunity is to encourage all students, staff and faculty to take advantage of this experience. It is my hope that after this week, many of us will have both a greater understanding and appreciation of what the Constitution means to us.
Charles Bowen -
The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the king the basis of his kingdoms, the sun of his microcosm, the heart of the state; from him all power arises and all grace stems.
William Harvey -
With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.
Evan Thomas