Alan Barth Quotes

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

Alan Barth

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• Depends
• Toleration

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• At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • End
  • Stage
  • Immigration

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• I don't think there is much American music.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • American
  • Think

• When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Football
  • Soccer

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Young
  • Danger

• Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Woman
  • Dreams
  • Warrior

• When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Me
  • Problems
  • Working

• The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Why
  • Golf
  • Act

• The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women

• True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.

  

  Walter Scott
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Codeine...bourbon...

  

  Tallulah Bankhead

• You're just mad 'cause I got my dick sucked, and my balls licked.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Mad

• Great music is great music, period.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Great
  • Music
  • Period

• In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Writing

• I always make time for the things that are important to me.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Time
  • Important

• One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

  

  Anna Julia Cooper
  • God

• I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

  

  John Cusack

• Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Fly

• Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • World
  • Body
  • Creation

• We're lucky to have such great fans that have stood by us, let us be us and try new things.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Great

• I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.

  

  Eminem
  • Blue

• Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

  

  Alan Barth
  • Loyalty
  • Depends
  • Toleration