Walter Wriston Quotes
The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.
Walter Wriston
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A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.
J. J. Watt
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge
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In Kazakhstan the favorite hobbies are disco dancing, archery, rape, and table tennis.
Sacha Baron Cohen
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If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
Randall Jarrell
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They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful.
Tanith Lee
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The opposite of freedom is not determinism, but hardness of heart. Freedom presupposes openness of heart, of mind, of eye and ear.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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By the time Sonic Youth formed in 1981, my musical tastes had left the Dead behind, but I was always very proud of the fact that we had three different singers singing individually from different points of view, like the Dead.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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I hate to admit it to my wife, but I only wear two outfits on the road, and then a third one during the day, but I carry about 20.
John Prine
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And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it.
Wangechi Mutu
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The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.
Walter Wriston