David Corn Quotes

Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

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• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Frame

• I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Family
  • Talk
  • Through

• My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Say
  • Wrong
  • View

• I'm an idiot.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Idiot

• I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Cool
  • Whole
  • Got

• Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Attention
  • Criticism

• You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power

• Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Done
  • Past
  • Lost

• Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Real

• An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Reality

• I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Long
  • Learning

• I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • School
  • Light
  • Model

• I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

  

  Ariel Garten
  • Art
  • Science

• On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• If you're in a situation where your effective tax rate is so much lower than any other company, then obviously you have a much better position when it comes to compete on prices and everything else.

  

  Margrethe Vestager

• Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Time
  • Change
  • Opinion

• Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

  

  Francis Scott Key
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Song

• Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Light
  • I Love
  • Visions

• Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

  

  David Corn
  • Opinion
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