Daniel Mendelsohn Quotes
Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Oscar Wilde, the 20th-century gay boy was Stonewall and ACT UP. And in the 21st century, we have blocking people on Grindr. That's what we've accomplished. Without some kind of traction.
Daniel Mendelsohn
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To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Walter Benjamin
In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.
Nathaniel Philbrick
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
Samantha Power
John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
Tab Hunter
When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.
Pete Gallego
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can't tell people, 'Ask me this question and structure it in this way.' And if they ask a question, and you have a bad answer, first time, maybe they'll be okay with it. Third time, they're going to say, 'This is a complete waste of time. I'm going away.'
Dara Khosrowshahi
I race to win, not to please people.
Bernard Hinault
You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.
Whitney Houston
Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Oscar Wilde, the 20th-century gay boy was Stonewall and ACT UP. And in the 21st century, we have blocking people on Grindr. That's what we've accomplished. Without some kind of traction.
Daniel Mendelsohn
