Michael Kinsley Quotes
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
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Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
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There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
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I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.
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Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
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I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.
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Emotions are the colors of the soul.
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President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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So knuckle down. Get your book written. Get your life sorted.
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A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.
