Bret Stephens Quotes

Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose of penance. What's remarkable is the extent to which penance sells among a mostly secular audience. What is there to be penitent about?

Bret Stephens

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Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

John Berger

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That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

Anna Lindh

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I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

Angie Harmon

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There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

Meshell Ndegeocello

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It's hard for a comic to be joking when your lines can't be funny.

Steven Michael Quezada

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What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.

Steve Rushin

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Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!

Trisha Yearwood

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I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!

Tom Ford

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Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

Mika

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I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

Lou Reed

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I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

Jared Harris

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