Jonathan Dee Quotes

I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum.

Jonathan Dee

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LifeI AmAmericanLongPlaceSeem

Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.

Angus Deaton

GoodPeoplePotentialAmericaIndia

My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.

John Updike

WordsTransitionPicturesOpposition

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Stephen Hawking

DayEarthOne DayPlanetVenusSoon

I was an early peaker, and then I went through a depressive part of my life and had some struggles personally. Things don't always happen as you'd expect them to happen, but there's always a second act.

Steve Zissis

LifeMy LifeYouEarlyStruggles

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

Robert Creeley

FamilyTimeMemoryPresentAuthority

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

Russell Crowe

CourageGriefPatriotismWarPeople

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

Joseph de Maistre

VisionManResultsPoorEverything

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

Jose Bergamin

MatterEverythingOne ThingOnly

Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'

Dionne Bromfield

FunnyGoodPeopleOpinionStandYou

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

Chris Lilley

PressureFeelPlanYouWhyNeed

Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.

Cliff Chiang

CharacterWomanLongPerfectWonder

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

Bret Stephens

FoodInsecuritySameHungerRemotely

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