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George Steiner Quotes

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: April 23, 1929

Topics

Culture Wrong Noise Something

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

Work Love Time Politics College

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

Feel You Scary Years Six How

I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.

Baby Want Sing Like Babies Front

I think I'm perfectly reasonable.

Think I Think Reasonable Perfectly

It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.

Job Enjoy You Scared Stay Because

I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.

Sterling K. Brown

Work Great Black Remember Actor Did

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

I Am Free Republican Against Market

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Education Art Government People

My natural state is to be happy. I'm naturally buoyant. I wake up feeling, 'What a great morning!' I've had some tragedy in my life, absolutely, but I don't know one human being who hasn't. You either learn from it and become empowered by it, or you become a victim to it. It's life, after all.

Life Morning Great Happy Be Happy

It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way.

Good Me World Small Know Nice

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Music People Deaf Going Because

I am retiring from startup investing. It's hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well.

I Am Hard Right Leave Things Going

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