Victor Davis Hanson Quotes

What bothers the New York Times is not racism per se, but who is the racist and who are her targets.

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

  

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  

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• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

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• Follow the yellow brick road.

  

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• My responsibility is to follow the law.

  

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• I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

  

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• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

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• I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

  

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• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

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• I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.

  

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• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

  

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• Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.

  

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• What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

  

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• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

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• I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

  

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• With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.

  

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• First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

  

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• I know there is a difference between adaption and evolution.

  

  Jack Kingston
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• I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!

  

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• I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

  

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• I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

  

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• Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.

  

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• Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

  

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• What bothers the New York Times is not racism per se, but who is the racist and who are her targets.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Racism