Ken Auletta Quotes

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

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• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Help
  • Influence
  • Legal

• The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • Relationship
  • Teacher

• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Question
  • Learn

• I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Said
  • Lot

• I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Control

• Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Body
  • Afraid
  • Before

• Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Find
  • Partner
  • Musical

• Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • High
  • Integrity
  • Transparent

• In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Language
  • Voice
  • Difficult

• The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art

• You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Hand

• My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • She
  • Power
  • Mother

• The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Age
  • Victory

• There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

  

  James Herriot
  • Help
  • Fall
  • Animal

• If there's one thing I've learned after a lifetime of dining on delicacies like blood pudding, sea squirts, and camel kidneys, even folks who wouldn't come within 100 yards of a Cambodian tarantula want to hear what it's like to chomp on one!

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Sea

• End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • World
  • Friends
  • True

• I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more.

  

  Susannah Cahalan
  • Respect
  • Hormones
  • Molecules

• Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

  

  Ken Auletta