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Christopher Lasch Quotes

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Christopher Lasch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Smile Realistic Denial Ideology

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

Influence You More Savings Got Like

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born.

Style Writing World Book Tough Born

In our society, I see public media as a lever. It pushes people by elevating them and their sights. It brings them into more thinking and understanding, and it brings us together.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Together People Society Thinking See

If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up with goodies and all kinds of little freebies that you get.

Good You Know Actor Him Up

Nothing looks as great on videotape as Hollywood after a rain.

Great Rain Looks Hollywood Nothing

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude.

Change Great Political Now Need

I like being myself. Maybe just slimmer, with a few less wrinkles.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Myself Wrinkles Being Myself Just

For me, a story always goes out of a mistake. Somebody makes a mistake, and that becomes the story. Probably that explains why my series are kind of dark: because there's a problem to begin with.

Brian Azzarello

Mistake Me Story Problem Dark Kind

I'm a woman specialist now. I'm going around the world to challenge all the woman champions. England, France, Czechoslovakia, everywhere.

Challenge Woman World Champions Now

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

Surprise Comedy You Twice Something

I don't believe in having a separate workout for quarterbacks. Other players hate that.

Hate Believe Players Workout Having

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

History Fashion Believe Process New

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