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Toby Young Quotes

The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 - doesn't disqualify me from serving on the board of the OfS.

Toby Young

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1963

Topics

Me Serving University Cambridge Fact

The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

Matthew McConaughey

Best People Advice Give Who

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

Michael Haneke

Yourself Laughter Recognition You

I often find myself in situations where I am the token black person. It can feel like this enormous weight.

Amandla Stenberg

Myself I Am Black Feel Find Person

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

Simon Schama

History Think Smoke Right About

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

Ronald Biggs

Art Day School End Go Kind

I sometimes wish I weren't as logical as I am and I wish I weren't as smart as I am, because I'd be happy.

Rush Limbaugh

Smart I Am Happy Be Happy Wish Were

'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.

Lizzy Caplan

Life Fun Sick Short My Life Seasons

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

Christopher Atkins

Change Want Much Lifestyles

My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I'm not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea.

Brandi Carlile

Wife Furniture House Next Out Up

Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

Wole Soyinka

Politics Believe I Believe Occupation

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

Thomas Frank

Media Bias Right Theme Been Course

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Thomas Friedman

Keep Going Feel You Back Done Going