Michael Kinsley Quotes

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

Michael Kinsley

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• My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Girl
  • Heaven
  • Angel

• Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Same
  • Page

• The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Thing
  • Hardest

• The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Magic

• 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.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • People
  • History
  • Serious

• Things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Measure
  • Expected
  • Turn Up

• 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.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Face
  • Fears

• 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.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Stories
  • Happens
  • Wonderful

• What's devil to some is good to some others.

  

  Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • Good
  • Devil
  • Some

• 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.

  

  Steve Martin
  • War
  • Careers
  • Affection

• Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.

  

  Chiara Lubich
  • Fire
  • Doe
  • Grows

• I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Dog
  • Persons
  • Cat

• It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

  

  Adam Grant
  • True
  • Moment
  • Leader

• I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Important
  • Think
  • Really

• For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Breathe
  • Speaking

• There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

  

  Michael Kinsley
  • Conformity
  • Participate
  • Cyberspace