Tom Reiss Quotes

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.

Tom Reiss

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We have never had a president of the United States or a nominee of a major party who was a Supreme Court law clerk.

Jeffrey Toobin

LawPartyPresidentNeverUnited

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

Maurice Sendak

HappyParentsBe HappyNeverKnew

Marriage can be tricky and challenging at times.

John Rampton

MarriageTrickyTimesChallenging

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

Steffi Graf

GoodCityMeWritingDoctorWorld

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Steven Wright

GodPeopleSeeAcidWouldHe

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

Troy Perry

LoveMyselfYourselfPeopleYou

All theater is dance.

Robert Wilson

DanceTheater

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Joy Harjo

PathSunPeopleEarthUnderstandUs

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

Dick Van Dyke

LoveLove IsSingingComedyFirst

I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances.

Douglas Coupland

PeopleAmazingThinkNowDeadOut

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

Doris Lessing

PeopleWorldRevolutionStandSeen

When I was making my second record, I was in studio, and I was like, 'No more ballads! Absolutely not!' And somebody walked in with 'The Man I Wanna Be' and I heard it and was like, 'Ah, crap!'

Chris Young

ManMoreLikeAbsolutelyCrap

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