Anthony Lane Quotes

That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

Anthony Lane

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• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

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• I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.

  

  Paris Jackson
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• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
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• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
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• Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

  

  Ted Levine
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• From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
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• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
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• I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Me
  • Know
  • Hand

• The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Early

• I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Relationship
  • Company
  • Playing

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• 'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Existence

• 'And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone’s control. The essence of nanotech life’s evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.''Humanity, you mean,' said Lourdusamy.'Precisely.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Control
  • Humanity

• I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Science

• They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
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• It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.

  

  Leo Strauss
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• The national Log Cabin Republicans are ridiculous. They’re not conservative at all. I don’t even think they’re gay - they’re bi (partisan). GOProud is comprised of real conservatives who happen to be gay. (Same with the Texas LCRs, for whom I’ve been signing books for years.)

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Real
  • Gay
  • Texas

• Make no mistake about it. I don't want a man in here to go back home thinking otherwise; we are going to win.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Mistake

• She is made up of depths even the ocean couldn't fathom.

  

  Jessica Katoff
  • Ocean
  • Depths

• Listen more than you talk.

  

  Clara Shih

• When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Door
  • Smile
  • Tears

• Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Brave
  • Self
  • Illusion

• That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

  

  Anthony Lane
  • Tears
  • Illusion
  • Cookbooks