Michael Kinsley Quotes
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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.
Hal Boyle -
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.
Arthur George Gaston -
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura -
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.
Ian Gardner -
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Colin Farrell -
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
Chogyam Trungpa -
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
Rita Mae Brown -
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Tom Stoppard -
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.
Vladimir Putin -
Emotions are the colors of the soul.
William P. Young
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I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.
Donald Trump -
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
You know, every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.
Elizabeth Bear -
A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.
Michael Kinsley