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Mark Helprin Quotes

The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.

Mark Helprin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 28, 1947

Topics

Strategy Events Stability Balancing

We derive confidence as women from what we wear.

Jennifer Hyman

Confidence Women Wear Derive

America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

John Paul DeJoria

Business Balance People World Budget

I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.

Matt Walsh

Good People Think You Drama Want

You've got to be in your kitchens, or it all falls apart.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

You Got Your Apart Falls Kitchens

I don't know when the last time I had fried chicken was. Must've been years. As soon as I think about eating it, I think about the stomach ache I'd get.

Michael Jai White

Time Eating Think Know Chicken Get

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.

John Philpot Curran

Fate Become Active Prey See Rights

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

Chuck Palahniuk

Why Seem Lives Writers

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

Brooke Shields

Me Always Humour Been Mechanism

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

Bruce Greenwood

Husband Background Just

I never judge my song titles; I just spit them out.

Arca

Song Judge Never Out Titles Just

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

Ashton Kutcher

Hope Courage Art Romantic I Am Me

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

Alison Gopnik

Science History Past School Baseball