Nick Zinner Quotes

My relationship to images is always in flux... Photos I think are great can turn out to be not so interesting five years later, and vice versa. I've learned there's no thing as a bad photo - every one is a personal record of a time and place.

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• Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Children
  • Family

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Hand
  • Better
  • Determination

• Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Think
  • Run
  • Office

• I love the Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Beatles

• If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Young
  • Say
  • Office

• To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

  

  Nelly Sachs
  • Reality

• The contract stuff will work itself out. If we keep winning, those kinds of things all work themselves out in time.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Time
  • Work
  • Winning

• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Attention

• Planned Parenthood had better hope that Hillary Clinton wins this election, because I guarantee under President Jindal, January 2017, the Department of Justice and the IRS and everybody else that we can send from the federal government will be going in to Planned Parenthood.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • Hope
  • Justice

• I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues

• The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• I like romanticizing romance.

  

  Ansel Elgort

• My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

  

  Kenneth Joseph Arrow
  • World
  • War
  • Study

• I went to the Conservatory, studying piano and singing, up to high school - but I only did four years because I then had to start working, and the jobs were so good that I didn't stop.

  

  Elena Roger
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

  

  Ken Jennings
  • High
  • Alone
  • Poetry

• I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • American
  • Magic

• I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Interesting
  • Couple

• Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Why

• A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Why

• When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I’d memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Thinking
  • Communicating
  • Translating

• My relationship to images is always in flux... Photos I think are great can turn out to be not so interesting five years later, and vice versa. I've learned there's no thing as a bad photo - every one is a personal record of a time and place.

  

  Nick Zinner
  • Thinking
  • Interesting