Ivan Krastev Quotes

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Ivan Krastev

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• I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Man
  • Television
  • Only

• The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Man
  • Marry

• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Door
  • Yourself
  • Honest

• Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Voting

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Black
  • Best
  • Black-and-white

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• I love working in New York.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Love
  • Working
  • New York

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Book
  • Think

• I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Think
  • Success
  • Lost

• I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

  

  Ovid
  • Character
  • Study
  • Faithful

• There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Young

• But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Music
  • Love
  • Best

• To many, perhaps to most people outside the small company of the great scholars, past and present, 'Celtic' of any sort is, nonetheless, a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. … Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good

• I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Money
  • She
  • Wife

• The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Trust
  • Decision
  • Tough

• I don't think they should trust anything that happens in 'Fargo' at all, and I'm sure 'Fargo' fans know not to make the mistake of trusting too much.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Trust
  • Mistake

• I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people on, and they would write songs and develop themselves as artists. But then, instead of getting a little bit more credible, it got a little bit more ridiculous.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

  

  Ivan Krastev
  • Trust
  • Transparency
  • Managing