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Christopher Lasch Quotes

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Christopher Lasch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 1, 1932 - February 14, 1994

Topics

Wisdom Community Progress Obstacle

I don't really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to.

Magic Go Want Personal Involvement

There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

Good Team Energy Pressure You Want

I don't think I could last in anything for 10 years doing a character.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Character Think Doing Years Anything

Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread?

Cake Fat You Bread Why Confuse

I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago.

Confident Security Years Exist Aware

I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in.

Power Woman Body Perfect Pilot She

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Roberto Azevedo

Progress Spark Opening Trade Well

I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.

Love Job Yourself Control Saying

I'm not usually vain about my body. It's like Pennsylvania: The same way the Keystone State comprises Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with not much in between, I've got good legs and shapely eyebrows, and it's kind of a wasteland outside of that.

Good Body Philadelphia Kind Way Got

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.

Truth Sea Simple Ocean Woman I Am

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

People World Computers Transform

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

Brian Helgeland

Character Ideas Story Situation More

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