Walter Kirn Quotes
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
Quotes to Explore
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
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I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.
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When we learn to respect all life, we learn to love all life.
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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
