James Hillman Quotes

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

James Hillman

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EducationCapitalismAmericanLoss

Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.

Joe Lhota

LifeQualityCityThinkYouThings

I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.

John Coltrane

JazzFirstHimBoundariesSeeOwn

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

Ann Hood

DaughterGraceFriendsWriteUpSix

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

John Polanyi

TechnologyScienceRespectAlien

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer.

Travis Fimmel

CarWalkHouseBuildFixGuy

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

WorkYouStopChangesOutWet

I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody.

Roy Jones Jr.

FightMeBasketballForwardLook

It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, search our homes, whatever and, in exchange, we get a functioning society that keeps us relatively safe, and that's the tradeoff we make.

Matt Apuzzo

SocietySearchYouTaxRightUp

If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.

Michael Ledeen

FaceYouBadTakeOptionsMeans

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

Jean Baudrillard

MoneyI AmYouBackGoNever

It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into the rhythm in N.W.A's lyrics.

Corey Hawkins

CrazyLanguageJazzRhythmJustHow

For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.

Clive Sinclair

FootballTogetherMeHorseGoJews

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