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Richard Rorty Quotes

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1931 - June 8, 2007

Topics

Think Talking You Conservative Left

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

Good Blind Inappropriate How Readers

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

John Gregory Dunne

Mind Writing Labor Like Pipe Laying

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

Melissa McCarthy

People End Laugh Enough Up Pretend

I like a lot of documentaries, I like political movies and political thrillers. But I also like a good action movie. I like a pretty wide range.

Good Action Political Movies Pretty

Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they're too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they're older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy.

Mistake Busy Think Feel You Young

Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.

Unique Late Find Top Seventies Very

There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

Life Believe Find Will Difficult

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Death People Philosophy Way Right

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

Me Doing Go Sometimes Want Right

You can do a lot of damage if you try to answer a question part-way.

You Try Question Answer Damage Lot

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.

Me Information Go Said Meet First

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Life Man Thinking Alter His

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