Michael Kinsley Quotes
There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.
Quotes to Explore
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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History has proven that when the people of Israel unite under a serious and responsible leadership, we know how to overcome all challenges and overcome all obstacles.
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Things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up.
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I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong.
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I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. Those are quite haunting because Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.
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I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.
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What's devil to some is good to some others.
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I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.
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I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.
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Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'
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As a matter of comparative, the U.S. citizens - the Puerto Ricans that live in the United States - have much better incomes, more than twice as much, participate in the labor force of greater scales, have better results in the education system, and so forth.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.
