Tom Shales Quotes

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

Tom Shales

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 3, 1948

Topics

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I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.

Jeff Perry

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I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

Jeff Gannon

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We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

Stone Gossard

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I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

Mike White

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And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Less is more.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

Jonathan Galassi

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Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.

Clayton M. Christensen

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I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

Bob Dylan

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I do get to have my normal childhood. I just love to get together with my friends and family and have a good time.

Austin O'Brien

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When I first came to Chelsea, I couldn't kick the ball, and it was pointless, me playing, really. But I tried to play through the pain for the manager who bought me.

Ashley Cole

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Eggs are one of my all-time favorite foods, and making the over-easy egg is a test of skill.

Wylie Dufresne

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