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John Lahr Quotes

We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: July 12, 1941

Topics

History Money Problems White Living

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

Women Progress New Own Zealand Made

When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance.

Andre Leon Talley

Best Me Black Friends Doubt Dresses

Of course I would disagree that there's a definitive science that has concluded that mankind has turned the earth's thermostat up and that we can turn the earth's thermostat down at will, we just haven't yet found the will. That's the argument on climate change.

Change Science Down Argument Earth

The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in itself, induce a long-term warming trend, superimposed on all the other complicated effects that make climate fluctuate.

Complicated Will Rising Trend Make

Leftists wage the war on Christmas using their traditional methods - government fiat and the court system. They never win voting, and they certainly don't win in the free market, so they bravely fight their battles through big government.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Government Fight War Win Free Never

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

Mom Up Little Just Between Moved

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

Hope Sorry Look Back Strange Get

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.

You Go Comfortable More Never Get

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

Ego Direction Go Desire Let Go His

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

Books Shelf Course Alphabet Depends

I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.

Time School College Medicine Strong

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Learning Fool Man Wise Wise Man

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