Andy Kindler Quotes

I'm not a confrontational person in real life, so I really don't wanna get into arguments or fistfights with people I'm making fun of.

Andy Kindler

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LifeFunPeoplePersonRealGet

I was kind of a scaredy-cat as a kid, and I made a very deliberate decision at some point that I was not going to let fear rule my life or determine my experience. That wasn't so easily accomplished.

Andrew Solomon

LifeFearDecisionExperienceKind

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Maynard James Keenan

ArtYourselfYouSeriouslyWillToo

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

Robert Harris

WritingTalkingHeadUpFictionPop

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.

Ann Hood

LifeLoveChildrenChildhoodMeOld

I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.

Ann Robinson

WalkMindTouristBeingJustAround

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

Jefferson Davis

GodDayBe TrueTrueComeUnion

American histories were the same; they had these mad ideas about how Parliament worked, or what people really meant when they said A, B, or C. All my life, I felt simultaneously deracinated and rooted in both places, and now it's my greatest strength: I'm culturally bilingual.

Amanda Foreman

LifeStrengthPeopleIdeasAmerican

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

Tom Lantos

PowerFreeGenerationPoliticalFlow

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

Rory Kinnear

LifeLiveStruggleYourselfThink

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

Russell Hornsby

WorkFamilyPeopleColleaguesYou

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Mary Wollstonecraft

WomenFreedomMomentStruggleEnjoy

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

Michael Specter

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