James Howard Kunstler Quotes

The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

James Howard Kunstler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1948

Topics

TimeDoneRaceHumanReflectOut

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

Jim Dine

RelationshipHeartTimeEasyNever

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

John Quincy Adams

WeaknessChristianVicePrinciple

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

Steve Burke

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Any time you go live with Vince McMahon it's going to be a very interesting experience.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

LiveTimeExperienceInterestingYou

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

Martin Seligman

PositiveFutureMomentPastBalls

I find it unnecessary, useless and frankly a bit unnecessary to get into all sorts of debates over President Obama's religion or the authenticity of his birth. I know for some people that it is an obsession. It is not with me.

Mike Huckabee

ReligionPeopleMeFindKnowBirth

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

Milos Zeman

GovernmentI AmFreeYouSometimes

I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

Lisa Murkowski

ChangeResponsibilityMoneyEnergy

I believe me being married, having a life outside of fighting, gives me a mental break.

Demetrious Johnson

LifeMeBelieveFightingI Believe

Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.

Clint Smith

DiversityActionResultsWillMore

My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

Clarice Taylor

FamilyEducationMeThoughtInsanity

The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presentation of it, so that the audience is part of the creation and not just part of the consumption. Then it becomes much more full-bodied and robust.

Ava DuVernay

ArtBestExperienceYouCreation

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