Stephanie Coontz Quotes

As a historian, I've spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 31, 1944

Topics

PeopleCareerNostalgiaWarningMuch

I'm dying always.

Jessye Norman

DyingAlways

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

WillHardFancyNecessityMust

I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.

John Battelle

PerfectionSmallFindWrongGoogle

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

John Berger

ChangeSupportAimPolicyBring

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

Michael Bay

FunnyFeelAlwaysRoomPlannedLot

It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

Amy Sherald

PeopleMeFindI CanHardSee

I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

Robert De Niro

CharacterDayEnd Of The DayEndYou

Many of the issues I encountered as acting secretary were not with the quality of medical care but with getting our veterans through the door to reach that care.

Robert Wilkie

QualityMedicalDoorCareActing

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

Desiigner

MusicPresentArtistsShowCome

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

Colin Baker

ChallengesTestIngenuityLikeYour

I just want the state fixed, and I just want to do the right thing for the taxpayers.

Bruce Rauner

Do The Right ThingWantRightJust

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

Philippe Petit

AgeCreativitySchoolParentsPeople

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