Terry Teachout Quotes
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made to work if it is charged with freshness and originality. You can have an entirely political Shakespeare production and I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat as long as it's surprising, as long as it's not just the standard, "out of the box" pseudo-transgressive production that we just see too much of nowadays.
Terry Teachout
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
Octavia E. Butler
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
Lamar Alexander
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein
I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
Natasha Leggero
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler
I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
Ted Cruz
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
Billy Joel
They have been a terrorist organization. They have to change their methods and they have to accept that violence is incompatible with democracy.
Javier Solana
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made to work if it is charged with freshness and originality. You can have an entirely political Shakespeare production and I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat as long as it's surprising, as long as it's not just the standard, "out of the box" pseudo-transgressive production that we just see too much of nowadays.
Terry Teachout