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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• It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Strength
  • Go
  • Let Go

• By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Night
  • Go
  • Bed

• 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.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Done
  • Political
  • New

• 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.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Go
  • Away
  • Even

• Nothing ever goes away.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Nothing
  • Away
  • Ever

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• 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.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Done
  • Career
  • Own

• I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Own
  • Comfortable
  • Skin

• Each is responsible for his own actions.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Own
  • Actions
  • Responsible

• 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.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Band
  • Go
  • Debate

• Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • People
  • Long
  • Own

• I want to be my own person.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• 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.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Worry
  • Books
  • Fan

• 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.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Different
  • Think
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • America
  • Own

• Peace is its own reward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Peace
  • Own
  • Reward

• I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Space
  • Go
  • Scientist

• We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Forever
  • Constitution

• A country does not go bankrupt.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Country
  • Go
  • Bankrupt

• To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Mind
  • Age

• I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

  

  William Devane
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Bad
  • Like
  • Sophisticated

• Luckily, my limited attention span is well suited to the velocity of the news cycles. There's an assault of stories coming at you on even a slow-ish news day, but certain things just tend to stick out. Certain stories just seem to have an odd sort of electricity. It does get tricky when you're pitching an image that won't hit the newsstands for another week. Not only can other, bigger stories break in the mean time, but other daily cartoonists, can also come up with the same idea - this is the most depressing thing - and put it out there so yours looks old by the time it's published.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Stories
  • Electricity
  • Stick

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Own
  • Go
  • Away