Joan Didion Quotes

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 5, 1934

Topics

DanceMindMeYouAngelsNever

A policy of knowing your replacement is one of the best ways to drive a growth culture. It anticipates and eliminates the most harmful politics in leadership for an expanding company and instantly sets the right tone for a high-talent, growth-mindset executive team.

Joe Lonsdale

LeadershipGrowthBestCultureTeam

My goal is to have a simple lottery to help our people and solve a decades old problem dealing with our general fund, particularly Medicaid. Let us solve this together and allow the people in your district the right to be a part of the process with a vote.

Robert J. Bentley

TogetherSimplePeopleProblemHelp

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

Jeb Bush

ChildrenGreatExpectationsAchieve

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Jeff Bridges

RelationshipEasyI CanSeeWould

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.

Amy Hoggart

StartFeelPatientCancerDisease

Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

Tom Shales

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If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element.

Juergen Teller

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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Desmond Tutu

LoveGodGreatReligionLove IsAny

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

Colson Whitehead

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Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.

Claire Danes

TimeChallengePatriotismNew York

I don't think a player like Messi is a selfish player.

Antonio Conte

SelfishThinkLikePlayerMessi

I want to be a purpose-driven, purpose-led organization, and I want the organization to achieve this aspiration of being the undisputed leader in professional services.

Punit Renjen

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