Michael Kinsley Quotes
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Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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Initially, when I joined Twitter, I was active. But, later, I felt that whatever I was tweeting or saying on a social platform turned out to be a little boring.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
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It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
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When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.
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When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.
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The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.
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I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.
