Andrew Potter Quotes

The object of their desire, the “essential” core of life, is something called authenticity, and finding the authentic has become the foremost spiritual quest of our time. It is a quest fraught with difficulty, as it takes place at the intersection of some of our culture’s most controversial issues, including environmentalism and the market economy, personal identity and the consumer culture, and artistic expression and the meaning of life.

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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Change

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Think
  • Serious
  • Impression

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • World
  • Love
  • Deep

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Living

• A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Future
  • Society
  • Past

• The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • Problem
  • English

• Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Causes

• If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Care
  • Search

• When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Think
  • Dead

• To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Victory
  • Give
  • Peaceful

• Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Saying
  • Means

• Johnny stopped and leaned over, partly from curiosity, but also to disguise the fact that his sexual efforts could not compete with the mention of such a large sum of money.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Money
  • Curiosity

• Hormone blockers changed and saved my life.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Life

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Mother
  • Learning
  • Plant

• I goggled. Her words did not appear to make sense. They seemed the mere aimless vapouring of an aunt who has been sitting out in the sun without a hat.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Words
  • Sun
  • Aunt

• I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Lesbian

• The object of their desire, the “essential” core of life, is something called authenticity, and finding the authentic has become the foremost spiritual quest of our time. It is a quest fraught with difficulty, as it takes place at the intersection of some of our culture’s most controversial issues, including environmentalism and the market economy, personal identity and the consumer culture, and artistic expression and the meaning of life.

  

  Andrew Potter
  • Time
  • Essential
  • Quest