Daniel Mendelsohn Quotes

I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about someone, or you love something, or you're a fool, or you embarrass yourself. And I don't think the answer is cynicism. Cynicism is not the cure for sentimentality. Cynicism is its own form of sentimentality. For example, I tried to watch Breaking Bad. After three episodes, I thought, I don't like this guy. I don't care about him. But you can see why people tell themselves that they think this is real. But real doesn't mean bad.

Daniel Mendelsohn

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• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Always
  • Minutes

• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Season
  • Starting

• When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Painting
  • New York

• When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Speak

• If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Good
  • Seen

• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Job
  • Success

• Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Motivational
  • Keep Going

• Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Different
  • Space
  • Goals

• There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • House
  • Three

• Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • School
  • High

• It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • History
  • Environment

• All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Girl

• What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Morning

• ‘When I say 'mind,'’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Mind
  • Brain

• I do not deny the importance of truthfulness, but sometimes an untruth, which benefits someone, may turn out to be a better alternative. It is better to have an impeccable characterbut it is more important to spread love and compassion.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Important
  • May
  • Compassion

• I’ve protected it the Nirvana catalogue from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Song

• Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • People
  • Alone
  • Wise

• Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Future
  • Imagination
  • Key

• In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • United States
  • Patriotism

• My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

  

  David Hanson
  • Friend

• There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Mistake

• I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about someone, or you love something, or you're a fool, or you embarrass yourself. And I don't think the answer is cynicism. Cynicism is not the cure for sentimentality. Cynicism is its own form of sentimentality. For example, I tried to watch Breaking Bad. After three episodes, I thought, I don't like this guy. I don't care about him. But you can see why people tell themselves that they think this is real. But real doesn't mean bad.

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real