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Greil Marcus Quotes

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1945

Topics

Culture End Dead Sure Sign Myths

I'm a Michael Bay fanatic.

Bay Fanatic Michael

What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.

Audience Up Where Come Characters

I can't allow myself to censor myself.

Myself Allow Censor

My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.

Love Writing Start Brand Name Plan

I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Paradise Person Kind Tropical Really

Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.

Golf You Sometimes Miss Just Takes

Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Failure Lesson Military Historical

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

Birthday Day Tired Idiot Born Diary

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Robert W. Service

Life Society Free Criticism Dislike

Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road.

Quality Road Week Fast Run Twice

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

Health Experience Fight Care Plan

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Wisdom Yourself End Surprise You

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