James Wolcott Quotes

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

James Wolcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.

Robert Reich

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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Angela Carter

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I'll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.

Jeff Fisher

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Affairs have been going on since Tolstoy.

Jean Kerr

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It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.

Stella McCartney

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What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

Stewart Rahr

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Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

Ron Eglash

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The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.

Diego Luna

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I feel I need to have people outside of show business who keep me grounded and define who I am.

Debra Stephenson

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No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

Claire McCaskill

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People who stand in the way of where people are walking - I hate that.

Brendon Urie

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I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

Britt Ekland

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