Joseph Epstein Quotes

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

Joseph Epstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 9, 1937

Topics

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A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

Jessica Savitch

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In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

Jennifer Granholm

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Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.

John Salazar

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Stretching back nearly three decades, Brian Williams and I have forged an enduring friendship. It all began in 1986 at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia and has resulted in a set of noteworthy experiences, amazing successes, and a bunch of trips to NASCAR speedways.

Steve Capus

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I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna.

Shura

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Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

Tom Hardy

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There are a lot of women at my gigs. The first show I headlined was a sea of women, which I can't complain about. I'm pleased these 18-year-old girls like my music.

Tom Odell

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After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

Mary Martin

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Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs?

Missy Elliott

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I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject the idea of intellectual compartmentalization.

Clint Smith

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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

Brian K. Vaughan

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