Michael Dirda Quotes

At any given moment, I've always assumed that nearly everyone around me was smarter than I was, more naturally gifted, quicker-witted, and probably capable of understanding Heidegger and Derrida.

Michael Dirda

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MomentMeUnderstandingMoreCapable

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.

Jerry Lewis

DayYourselfWorldLaughYouLook

At Rent the Runway, we rent designer clothes. We have a belief set that half of the closet over time is going to move into the cloud, and a portion of what we wear every single day will be comprised of things that we don't own forever.

Jennifer Hyman

TimeDayCloudClothesWillBelief

All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.

Andrew Forrest

ChanceOutIndustryMiningGiveGet

What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

John J. McLaughlin

IdeasOpinionsWantClash

India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish - and sometimes rats.

Amitava Kumar

TeaSmallFishRoyaltyLuxuryYou

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

EducationWisdomChildrenParents

We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces.

John R. Allen

WorkTimeSecurityMilitarySeeGot

I think women want to look beautiful. I think that's an important thing. It is relevant.

Tory Burch

WomenBeautifulThinkLookImportant

I definitely do live my life at a different pace now than I used to... I feel like I'm guilty of all the overindulgences of a guy in his 20s and early 30s could've gone through, but I look back on it with great fondness. I don't have a lot of regrets.

Tracy Lawrence

LifeLiveGreatMy LifeLookEarly

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

Liz Phair

TimeLongLong TimeWayRightHead

I trust no one, not even myself.

Joseph Stalin

MyselfTrustEven

I think the majority of police are really good people and really good at their jobs, but that doesn't change the fact that with any interaction I have with them, I'm viewed as a potential threat.

Jordan Peele

ChangeGoodPolicePeopleThink

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