Alain Finkielkraut Quotes

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

Alain Finkielkraut

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• I have worked with some great directors.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Great
  • Directors
  • Some

• You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • She
  • Truth

• I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Hair

• Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • American
  • Dream
  • Logic

• Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Long
  • Guy

• I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Sound

• I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Night
  • Rock
  • Revolution

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.

  

  Kate Spade
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Character
  • Play
  • Story

• It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag, a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label 'Lebanese,' preferring the less restrictive 'Levantine' designation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Power
  • Vision

• And so to bed.

  

  Samuel Pepys

• I can provide one living example of someone who made it and who came from what we now call a disadvantaged background: me.

  

  Ben Carson

• Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Night
  • Hand
  • Sales

• A No. 1 record is hard to come by.

  

  Josh Turner

• Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Art
  • Violence
  • Learn

• I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Failure

• I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Video
  • Jamiroqual

• I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Wish
  • Dog

• The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • True
  • Running
  • Dog

• Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

  

  Alain Finkielkraut
  • Dog
  • Companion
  • Inheritance