James Howard Kunstler Quotes

The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society. This narrative is so devoid of historical context that it should embarrass anyone beyond a second-grade education.

James Howard Kunstler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EducationGoodSocietyStoryAmerica

People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.

John Astin

SpacePeopleUsAvailableMakePoe

Being a mum changed me for the better.

Jenny Frost

MeBetterBeingChangedMum

Definitely there are lots of days that l am really tired, especially after becoming a new mom. There's nothing more exhausting because physically, mentally, emotionally, it requires you to be on all the time.

Jenna Dewan

TimeTiredMomYouNewNothing

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

Mem Fox

LifeChildCareWeekYearYoung

It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.

Andre Holland

DayYouEvery DayWantRightGet

I just want to keep doing a bunch of stuff that I don't really plan. I'm so fortunate and lucky that people keep giving me these platforms. Because I'm kind of a crazy person.

Megan Amram

PeopleMeCrazyGivingDoingPlan

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

Andy Kindler

GoodKnowledgeMeNightSomeoneYou

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

Mary Roach

FoodPeopleWolfYouMouthMissing

Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

Loudon Wainwright III

BlueSunTreesPlaceLos Angeles

For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.

Loretta Devine

CharacterTimeConsistencyBookTry

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

Lisa Kristine

WorkTrustMeSomeoneAuthenticity

What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.

Joseph Stiglitz

GreatTrustWithoutDivideFunction

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