Walter Kirn Quotes
Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Don't matter if you're rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own experiences in life and listen and learn from other people.
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The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.
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The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.
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Not why the addiction, but why the pain.
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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
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Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.
