James Wolcott Quotes

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.

James Wolcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

Andris Nelsons

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When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

Stewart Udall

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NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos.

Trevor Dunn

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It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

Tony Kushner

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Anything with Soros, I lay low. People kind of just roll their eyes when you bring him up.

Mike Cernovich

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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Don Marquis

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In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Colin Greenwood

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When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

Alice Dreger

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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

William Shakespeare

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Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

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The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

Peter Diamandis

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