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Julian Baggini Quotes

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: 1968

Topics

Age Eyes Experience Think Become

I'm a stand-up comic, but I also have ideas, and I want to get them out. People think getting in front of the mic is the only way to work out. You've got to try different situations.

Work People Ideas Think You Want

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

Moving Golf Playing Polo Like Parts

My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.

Style Action Feel Driving Audience

Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.

Matthew Desmond

Wealth Differences Nation Racial Gap

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Good Dreams Future Art Past Present

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

Believe Feel I Believe Politeness

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

Robert T. Bakker

People Cool Looking You Will Inside

It's why this sport is so great. You learn something every day. Every day, something.

Great Day Learn You Every Day Why

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

Sad World Ending Sadness Think You

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

Myself Me Sister Reading Doing She

History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.

Car History Best Window Kitchen Out

My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!

Jonathan Knight

I Am Loved Feel Gay Just Because

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