Timothy Morton Quotes

We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button.

Timothy Morton

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StupidThoughtGuiltBadKnowPress

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

Jill Lepore

NatureCharacterActionAmericanOut

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Stendhal

AgeBoredomCurseEvenCureOur

I should have my own publishing companies.

Solomon Burke

My OwnOwnShouldPublishing

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

Tony Snow

GoodTrustFreeDestinyBelieve

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.

Tom Seaver

PlacePlacesFirstTwoOnlyLeague

I think the most important thing that comes out of the meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt in early 1942 is a commitment on Roosevelt's part to fight Europe first. To struggle first against Germany and put Japan and the Pacific as a secondary theatre in the conflict. And this is what Churchill was after.

Robert Dallek

CommitmentStruggleFightTheatre

To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.

Tom Cullen

WorkMyselfStartThinkingAmerica

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion.

Rob Lowe

LoveMotherGreatMeGrowing Up

I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.

Mary Karr

ConfidenceMeAlwaysReadersPut

I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Michael Korda

BirthdayFatherLunchHotelParty

Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.

Jonathan Demme

LoveTogetherDoingEnoughCamera

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

Brian Greene

DeepQuestionsAcceptBoldnessMay

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