Raymond Chandler Quotes

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

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• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Age
  • Internet
  • Talk

• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Actions
  • Without
  • Protest

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
  • Cricket

• I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Women
  • She
  • Success

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Today
  • Information

• Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Chinese

• What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Christian

• The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Men
  • Change

• I'm the only gay person my parents know.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Gay

• The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Atheist

• I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Done
  • Me
  • Early

• I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Attention
  • Problem

• I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Dumb

• In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Family
  • Musicians

• Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Government
  • Acceptance

• The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Change
  • Changes

• In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Life
  • Career
  • Control

• I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Story
  • Modern
  • Myth

• As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.

  

  Mark Morris

• I go to work and get to hang out with nothing but my kind of guys!

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Go

• Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • World
  • Home
  • Financial

• As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • World
  • Sleep
  • Honest