David Harsanyi Quotes

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

David Harsanyi

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I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.

Jenny Slate

LifeWomanClothesNowWholeTight

Yes, there will be challenges, and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.

Jen Sincero

LifeLearningChallengesFaceHill

There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

John Legend

ConfidenceWorldWayBeingSure

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

John Wayne

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In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Stephen Hawking

MindOpinionRealityReachBeyond

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Simone Weil

GodScienceWorthlessBringUsDoes

Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.

Rob Thomas

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What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.

Mary Beard

TruthSpeakThinkWrongSometimes

'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.

Jon Landau

MusicExcellenceDanceBeginningMan

Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.

Johnny Mathis

EducationRememberDownJumpOver

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

Donald E. Westlake

ChangesSignificantFarPublishing

We had doubles for some of the stuff but a lot of it had to do with there's certain hours that you can dive and then you can't dive for another certain, like 12 hours just for the air and stuff.

Ashley Scott

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