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Tom Reiss Quotes

For me, history is always personal. And it's how your personal history interacts with the history of your time. I'm very attracted to characters who were cursed, as the Chinese say, to live in interesting times.

Tom Reiss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1964

Topics

Live History Time Me Interesting

Sooner or later, all magazines end up in the toilet.

Maurizio Cattelan

End Toilet Up Sooner Or Later Later

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

Maureen O'Hara

Family Born I Was Born Most Could

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.

Jeanne Calment

Good Lord Forgotten Been Our

That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's really no right or wrong way to do things. Everybody has a way they think you should do it. So why not do it your way, you know what I mean, respectfully.

Trevor Jackson

Life Day Think End Of The Day End

As CEO of Aetna, I was a buyer of portfolio companies rather than a participant in the value creation process. From the end of the assembly line, what happened in manufacturing wasn't visible to me.

Ron Williams

Value Me Process End Creation Line

No matter how many times the court shuts them down or how many Americans speak out to defend their rights, Republican politicians who stand to gain from suppressing voters won't back down. They'll only change their tactics.

Jason Kander

Change Speak Stand Back Down Matter

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

Coolio

Car Man Black Driving Young Nice

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

Claire Messud

I Am Look Canada Part Am Make-Up

I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

Clare Short

Time Law Rest Environment Poverty

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

Art Donovan

Food Pizza Vegetables Hot Dogs Eat

The 'teavangelicals' of the 21st century have flipped the script, turning their ideas about Christianity, social responsibility, and care for the downtrodden into a mythology of Christian founding fathers.

Anthea Butler

Responsibility Ideas Care Christian

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute, the world changed for me.

Priyanka Chopra

Sleep Me World Believe Someone Used