Mickey Kaus Quotes
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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A house is kind of scary.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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Now out upon you, Christmas !Is this the merry time When the red hearth blazed, the harper sung,And the bells rung their glorious chime ? . . .
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Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn't always flashy, but it does get results.
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I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.
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I like playing characters that have a prickly armor because when you start to see the cracks and some heart come out, it gives the audience something to look forward to.
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With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
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I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
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You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.
