Todd Gitlin Quotes

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

Todd Gitlin

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PatriotismWiseNameSeptemberBeen

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

John Corey Whaley

LiveDayWorldThinkHelpLook

I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs.

Andrew Forrest

WomenMenYoungMen And WomenKids

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

Anderson Cooper

LifeThinkingEndRememberSuicide

I can only approach things indirectly, or I can't approach them at all.

Michael Feldman

I CanThingsOnlyApproachThem

Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.

John Waters

ChildrenSchoolMeBookReading

No offense, but I don't get the whole concept of arranged marriage. I'd rather know the person who I'll settle down with.

Sidharth Malhotra

MarriageDownPersonKnowSettle

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

Ruth Rendell

SucceedThinkFeelTryBecausePity

Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.

Mary H.K. Choi

TogetherPeopleMeArmyEnoughWill

It's taken a while for me to figure out my sound. It's tough, coming from DJing, because you know how things are supposed to sound, but you also don't want to be formulaic about it.

Mija

MeToughYouKnowWantSound

So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.

Michael Shanks

JobThinkingYouGoPilotKnowing

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

Miriam Makeba

LifeMusicDayI AmWorldAmerican

It used to be that in media, Johnny Carson used to be the most important person when he would invite you over to sit on the couch after your comedy skit. Now it's whatever Howard Stern says goes.

Lisa Lampanelli

ComedyMediaYouPersonImportant

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