James Howard Kunstler Quotes

The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since I was a little boy.

James Howard Kunstler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I definitely believe in ghosts.

Jenna Dewan

BelieveGhostsDefinitely

It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.

John Mica

PeopleLookingStandTalkingPerson

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith

GreatYourselfPeopleThinkMeetings

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Matthew Shipp

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Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

Ann Coulter

TodayImpossiblePoliticalAmerica

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

NothingAtheistSheHerSkepticism

If I'm going to be honest with you, when I trained at school, I feel like I was training to be a chameleon. I want to be that versatile actor who can do anything - that's why you learn fifty different dialects, you do Shakespeare, you do commedia, you do it all so that if any job comes your way, you should be able to do it.

Rutina Wesley

JobTrainingSchoolFeelLearnYou

Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.

Mary Kay Andrews

LoveWomenMusicMenSweetRevenge

There are situations when, in your singing, in your interpretation of songs, for instance, when you want a straight tone. And I have to work really hard at getting a straight tone... That's sort of like if you have curly hair, you have curly hair.

Johnny Mathis

WorkHairSingingYouWantCurly

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Desmond Tutu

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We've offered direct financial support for a range of renewable energy sources, whether it be large-scale solar, whether it be geothermal, whether it be wave power or wind power.

Denis Napthine

PowerSupportWindEnergyFinancial

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

Conrad Wolfram

PeopleWorldComputersTransform

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