Rick Perlstein Quotes
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.Rick Perlstein
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
J. D. Vance -
I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
Xavi -
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
Taylor Swift -
The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
Flume -
I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
Paris Hilton -
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
Ira Sachs
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
Adam Grant -
I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
Padma Lakshmi -
I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
Yair Lapid -
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
Naomi Campbell -
You always want your films to go as far as they can.
Sally Hawkins
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The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.
Charles Spurgeon -
In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
Henry David Thoreau -
I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
Ai Weiwei -
I grasp at each second, trying to suck it dry: nothing happens which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever in myself, nothing, neither the fugitive tenderness of those lovely eyes, nor the noises of the street, nor the false dawn of early morning: and even so the minute passes and I do not hold it back, I like to see it pass.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
Brandon Stanton
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I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.
Peggy Johnson -
If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
Brian Williams -
I am one of the lucky North Koreans who made it out of China. North Korean defectors in the country are terrified of trying to leave because they are often caught at the borders as they attempt to cross into Mongolia or Laos.
Lee Hyeon-seo -
It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
Fabrizio Moreira -
I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.
Lori Greiner -
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.
Rick Perlstein