John Shelton Reed Quotes

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.

John Shelton Reed

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
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  • Birth: 1942

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Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.

Maury Yeston

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When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

Ann Beattie

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I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.

Jeff Vandermeer

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If I was in office, I'd get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of all the countries and explain to them like, 'This is how it's going to be. We need y'all oil and water. Y'all need our money and technology. Now, what y'all gon' do?'

Trick Daddy

TechnologyWaterMoneyTogetherNow

'The Outsider' is a culmination of a lot of things I've been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will render my past pigeonholing obsolete while positioning me more solidly as a socially conscious American singer/songwriter. Wouldn't that be entertaining?

Rodney Crowell

PastMeAmericanArtistWillMore

The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.

Mary Beard

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Owned technologies are easy to grasp because they're so prevalent. They're technologies that are developed and shaped by a defined group, usually someone selling it.

Jonathan Zittrain

SomeoneEasySellingGroupBecause

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

Chris Van Allsburg

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I feel like I have the best job in the world.

Bret Harrison

BestJobWorldFeelI Feel Like

I am an American. I love this country.

Paul Tsongas

LoveI AmAmericanCountryAm

I have amazing parents. They had worked hard all their lives for me, and when I started to make money, I wanted to be able to take care of them.

Noemie Lenoir

MoneyParentsAmazingMeCareHard

You see those magazines, 'Oh, look at so-and-so without makeup, Halle Berry without makeup.' It's so crazy to wake up in the morning and have that thought - 'Do I need to put makeup on? Do I need to do something because I know people are going to know who I am?'

Morena Baccarin

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