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Michael Kinsley Quotes

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.

Michael Kinsley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 9, 1951

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Government You House Out Property

You can find things about me you don't like. And frankly, I don't want to hear it.

Jimmy Swaggart

Me You Find Want Things Like

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

Jim Crace

Angry People Reading End Three Want

My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.

Jennifer Egan

Experience Quality Thinking Living

The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.

Andrea M. Ghez

Stars Small Black Key You Proving

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

Maya Angelou

Aging Hair Feel You I Can Important

Once I've properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with 'Capital,' I felt I'd spent so much time with the characters that they were very, very real, and I definitely had a sense of loss about leaving them behind in a way I've not quite had before.

John Lanchester

Time Book Think Loss Leaving Way

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Robert Herrick

First Neck Who Second Broke He

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Steve Jobs

Car People Drive You Physics Know

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

Robert Carlyle

Light Darkness Childhood First Years

No matter what the circumstances are, I've never seen Tom Brady come out and not give it all in practice. There's never any change in him. Whenever he's out on the field, he's giving it all, and he's just such a competitor.

Rob Gronkowski

Change Practice Giving Circumstances

I still feel like a nerd.

Judd Apatow

Feel Still Like Nerd

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Joshua A. Norton

Mexico United Us United States