Walter Kirn Quotes

When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can't make it go away.

Walter Kirn

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• If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

  

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• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  

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• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

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• You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

  

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• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

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• I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

  

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• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

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• When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

  

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• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

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• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

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• When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

  

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• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

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• I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

  

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• I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.

  

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• When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can't make it go away.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Powerful
  • Successful
  • Alien