Walter Kirn Quotes

Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Human
  • Liberty
  • Sense

• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Man
  • Intelligent
  • Down

• We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Work
  • God
  • Children

• I'm not a leading man.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Leading Man

• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Live
  • Disease

• You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • High
  • Want
  • You

• People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • History
  • Taken

• Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual

• Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Children
  • Community
  • Health

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!

  

  Harry Caray
  • Home
  • Run
  • Home Run

• The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Science
  • End
  • Theory

• If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Imagine
  • Achieve
  • Farming

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Tired

• If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Country
  • Political
  • Doing

• I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Take
  • Normally

• I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Remember
  • Sheep
  • Altars

• Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Wise

• We must be sure to be governed by inner principle and not outer pressure.

  

  O. S. Hawkins

• Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.

  

  Walter Kirn
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