Zephyr Teachout Quotes
Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.
Quotes to Explore
-
'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
-
To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
-
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
-
In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
-
Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
-
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
-
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
-
I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
-
If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
-
I started out doing musicals.
-
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
-
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
-
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
-
I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
-
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
-
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
-
I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
-
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
-
My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
-
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
-
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
-
In a media age where books are no longer the primary medium for information storage and exchange, language must be reclaimed from the hucksters and the pedants and imaginatively reinforced. To save literature, educators must take command of the pre-rational world of images. The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
-
Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.
-
Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.
