Walter Kirn Quotes
Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.Walter Kirn
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
Larisa Oleynik -
When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
J. C. Chandor -
Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
Kate Christensen -
Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
Yannick Noah -
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra -
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
Halsey -
My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out -
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
Victor Garber -
Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
Patricia Heaton -
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Warren E. Burger -
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
Ursula Burns -
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
Zooey Deschanel -
I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
OMI -
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.
Felicity Kendal -
Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.
Jamie Dornan -
You cannot travel within and stand still without.
James Lane Allen -
At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.
Barack Obama -
People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceive assume everybody deceives.
Anna C Salter -
Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
Walter Kirn