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James Wolcott Quotes

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: December 10, 1952

Topics

Eyes World Drive Enough True Mean

Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.

Great Time Me Everything Days Count

Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed - and that can be dangerous.

Truth Decision Decisions You House

Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.

Me Laugh Harder Than Anybody Makes

'Funny' is really cool live. You break it down into an acoustic set, and sometimes I'll do that one unplugged and off the mic, depending on the venue.

Funny Live Cool You Down Sometimes

I don't eat fish and chicken and all that. But I will have some eggs. So I'm not technically a vegan. But I eat pretty sensibly, and before a tour, I will usually work out a lot. I'll get a trainer, or I have a guy I've known a long time.

Work Time Fish Long Long Time Will

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

Think Feelings Write Because Songs

I know how to make myself comfortable.

Myself Know Comfortable Make How

If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

Saying Know Way Anything Going Idea

I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God Children Mistakes People Church

In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

Douglas Rushkoff

Age Day Sun You Connection Know

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

Sad Alone Identity Hide Dressed She

Internally, we're focused on building our own technology, leveraging all the momentum that's out there around wearable computing and mobile computing and PC computing. But at the end of the day, all the code we've written and all the invention we've created has been focused on our own tech and our own products.

Technology Day Building End Momentum

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