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Todd Gitlin Quotes

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

Todd Gitlin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american

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Work I Am Limits Think Possible Try

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

Jim Harrison

Thinking Fall Legends Years Days

It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.

Andre Aciman

Good Honesty Genius Enough Him Cut

I follow the roles.

Sissy Spacek

Follow Roles

I think it's important that the Republican Party remain the home of conservatives and that the best way to advance conservative principles is to elect Republicans up and down the ballot.

Tom Cotton

Home Best Think Down Party Way

Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.

Derek Walcott

Poetry Dead More Real Something

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness Best Day Happy Be Happy

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

Corey Feldman

Girl Wife You Rules Seriously Meet

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

Antonin Scalia

Future Death Chair Punishment Mean

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

William Shenstone

Strength Men You Belief Ever While

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.

Tim McGraw

Time Think Trying Country Radio Up

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Richard Powers

Say Little Side Big Books Would

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Morning Thinking Evening You Debt