Michael Kinsley Quotes

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

Michael Kinsley

• Leadership
• Americans
• Alchemy

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• Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Leaving
  • Stand
  • View

• I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Best
  • Son
  • Doing

• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Today
  • Health
  • Better

• Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • World
  • Think

• I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Best

• I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Up
  • Everyone
  • Far

• This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Art
  • Science
  • Opportunity

• Acting is a form of confession.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Acting
  • Form
  • Confession

• Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Know
  • Value

• The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Way
  • More

• I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Movie

• I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

  

  Chuck D
  • People
  • Hand
  • Crazy

• I am a lucky man because when I was young, I wanted to be a footballer. Suddenly, around 30 years old, I thought, 'I want to try to be a manager because it's different.'

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Different

• Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

  

  David Seabury
  • Powerful
  • Courage
  • Enemy

• The Moodies is a responsibility to deliver the goods every night onstage and to do it sincerely; otherwise, it doesn't work. You've got the three guys left in the Moodies that really want to do it onstage, so I think we're truer to the old records now than we ever were.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • Work
  • Night
  • Responsibility

• Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Job

• As an executive producer, I feel really lucky.

  

  Jessica Williams

• The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Women
  • Best
  • Path

• Leadership is not just reacting to problems. Leadership is also preventing problems, and for a city or county to declare itself as a sanctuary city - meaning they would not comply and cooperate with federal authorities in compliance with immigration laws - I don’t believe that would make us safer.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • City
  • Leadership

• Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

  

  Bill Owens
  • Words
  • Leadership

• The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one.

  

  Dave Courtney
  • Brain
  • Dangerous

• Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

  

  Albert Goldbarth
  • History
  • Psychology
  • Astronomy

• Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

  

  Michael Kinsley
  • Leadership
  • Americans
  • Alchemy