Allan Bloom Quotes

I never considered myself a writer. I'm a teacher. In a way, I feel kind of... kind of guilty for all the people who are writers who hope to be on the best-seller list someday, who live for that and don't get it, and it came to me as a kind of free gift, like God coming to Abraham and announcing, 'I've chosen you!'

Allan Bloom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1930 - October 7, 1992

Topics

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It's a really nice thing to have so many fans and people that really care.

Jennifer Aniston

PeopleCareNiceFansManyReally

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.

Max Martini

GreatMistakesMeFaceFallPlace

I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.

Michael Ian Black

FeelCareerI Feel LikeBeenLike

As you get out and try to do things, you always find that in order to make an idea a reality, it goes through some changes. It doesn't always come out exactly like you envisioned it.

Steve Forbert

RealityYouFindTryChangesOut

I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it.

Tom Stoppard

ChangeWritingThoughtYouLookSee

Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.

Tom Vilsack

Tough TimesPeopleToughShipYou

To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him.

Tom Stoppard

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You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

Roelof Botha

YourselfYouLuckyPositionPut

Music, to me, is something that connects to the soul.

Mohit Chauhan

MusicSoulMeSomethingConnects

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Jose Marti

ManLivingDutyLeaveMustHe

My films do very well on home video.

Christopher McQuarrie

HomeWellVideoVeryFilms

I always judge my happiness by how much I listen to music.

Boy George

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