Gore Vidal Quotes

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

Gore Vidal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

Topics

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My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

Jesse James Garrett

WorkJobManagementEntrepreneurNow

In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the theory of inevitability perhaps more completely than anybody else. And it solved in the very short term some of their debt problems, but in the medium- and long-term, it left them in real economic trouble.

John Ralston Saul

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Every day should be a good day. People fool themselves that they'll be here forever.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

GoodDayFoolGood DayPeopleHere

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

Robert T. Bakker

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In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Louis Kahn

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In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.

Logan Green

CarCityYouWhereGetAround

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

Jason Reitman

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I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.

Jonathan Groff

I AmCitySexSeenFanSome

I don't think I'm all that twisted in my life. I'm not like some tattooed filmmaker who, you know, hangs out on the Lower East Side and is part of some satanic cult or something.

Doug Liman

LifeThinkMy LifeYouKnowOut

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

Arabella Weir

FearSchoolChildPeopleBetter

Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.

Philip Baker Hall

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