Walter Kirn Quotes
The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.
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By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
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Nothing ever goes away.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.
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I want to be my own person.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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Peace is its own reward.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
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I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
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We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.
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The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.
