Ezra Klein Quotes

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.

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• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Done
  • Start

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Period
  • Youth

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Women
  • Country
  • Trying

• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Work
  • Done
  • End

• I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Free
  • Sometimes

• For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Time
  • Long
  • Society

• I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Sleep
  • Weird
  • Clothes

• It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Religious
  • Politics
  • British

• When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Feel
  • Saying
  • Hungry

• Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Nations
  • Resolve
  • Disputes

• 'Visitation' reflects the era of the absentee father; 'parent time' influences the re-emergence of the involved father. 'Visitation' reflects the destruction of the family; 'parent time' influences the reconstruction of the family. 'Parent time' influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• Knowing how they were sleeping on a dirt floor at that very moment, while I had a soft pillow under my head, made me feel incredibly guilty.

  

  AnnaSophia Robb
  • Guilty

• Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Book

• Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Comedy

• I'm just trying to write things that resonate with people. And when we're all going through something together, I think you smile after that - I hope that people leave inspired after one of my shows.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Trying
  • Together

• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Preparation

• There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • Book
  • Black

• Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

  

  Jonathan Evison
  • People
  • Work

• One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.

  

  Ezra Klein
  • Power
  • System
  • Washington