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Bret Stephens Quotes

Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Succeed Moral Gut Social Decency

I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.

Story Think End You Down Need

My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.

Mother Son Sarcasm Body Living Up

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

Car Pain People Uncomfortable Look

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

John McLaughlin

Culture Mind Impact Spirit Studying

It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.

Me Face Whatever Throne Annoying

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

Man Story You Dirty Know Leaving

I know more about 'Moana' and 'Coco' these days than I do about anything hip and cool like 'Black Mirror'.

Rosemarie DeWitt

Mirror Cool Black Know More Days

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Knowledge Science World Humanity

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Saying Think Doing You Edge Mean

I think with '10 Things I Hate About You,' I was an angsty teenager, and in some ways, I responded to that character. That was one of my first big jobs, so I think maybe I lucked out, and casting thought that I was a good match for it. Since then, as I've gotten older, I'm a much more happy, joyful, almost carefree person.

Good Character Hate Happy Think You

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

Life Live Heart Me Transformation

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

Bruce Beresford

Good Best Experience Me Theatre

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