Rick Perlstein Quotes

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

Rick Perlstein

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You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.

John Cameron Mitchell

TimeBestThinkingYouKnowMovies

When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?

Josh Fox

LightWaterFireLaughYouGround

Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.

Derrick Grayson

MistakeControlGunAmericaMake

I think every woman, maybe every man, looks in the mirror and says, 'Oh my God, there's a wrinkle.' So we're all in the same boat.

Cheryl Tiegs

GodMirrorWomanManBoatThink

If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.

Cornelia Parker

ArtSchoolYouMoreCutGoing

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

Colleen Haskell

RelationshipLookingCameraYouDeal

The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship.

Bob Spitz

MusicInterestingTrueRockChanges

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

Aung San Suu Kyi

TimeAccomplishWantDutyPossible

It's a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to stop, and most mums will recognise the need to be discreet in certain limited circumstances.

Nigel Farage

WomenStopStreetCircumstancesWill

I find Shakespeare surprisingly sexual. A lot of his language - a lot - has that kind of sexual innuendo that is at once everywhere but also kinda lost because we have our own innuendo now, our own language.

Renee Elise Goldsberry

LanguageFindLostNowKindOwn

We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.

Marianne Williamson

SoulSameWereHad

Everyone has their 'Showgirls.' We remember the great films actors have been in, and the rest get forgotten. But occasionally, people like to revisit the ones that get swept aside.

Kyle MacLachlan

GreatPeopleRestRememberEveryone

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