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Bret Stephens Quotes

Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 21, 1973

Topics

Good Ideas You Say Execution Pretty

Heroes are a way to remove yourself from what may be difficult concepts to talk about in your life. They're a way to get some distance and have an experience in a theater where you're confronting those issues in a way that's safer for your psyche.

Life Experience Yourself You Way

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

Life Poetry People My Life Doing

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

Sarcasm Print Translate In Print

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

Social Pattern Communicate Mortals

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love Friend Man Loved Long Say

My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Life Love Rest My Life Environment

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

You Look Go Kind Out Things

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Money Language Worth Far Away True

I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.

Mary Steenburgen

Work Me Bad Years Because Offering

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.

Myself Feel Go Want Way Performing

What I do, it's part of my job, but you want to bring your kids up the right way and give them everything - to be there for them and have that connection.

Job You Connection Want Way Right

I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a cafe, I have to sit still, or I'll look a bit unhinged.

Home Focus Chair Look Never Write

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