Rick Perlstein Quotes

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

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• I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Practice
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• YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Three
  • Content
  • YouTube

• I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • Together
  • Fear

• I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Acting
  • Stage
  • Say

• You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Together

• Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Fashion

• I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Live
  • News
  • Phone

• There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example. Another is to do studies. Another is to go to a place of worship. Another thing is to sit and listen to someone who’s speaking. There’s all kinds of ways. Another way is to write. About the truth. Discover the struggle through your character.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Soul
  • Ocean
  • Sailing

• Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Orders
  • Decorations

• Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Revolution
  • Washington
  • Posterity

• Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Comfort
  • Bitter

• For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!

  

  Bettany Hughes
  • War
  • Ideals
  • Buildings

• What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Hair
  • Mistake
  • Sword

• I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Scare
  • Elvis
  • Trunk

• Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Laughter
  • Followers

• For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Leaders
  • Followers
  • Colossal