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Terry Teachout Quotes

I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.'

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: February 6, 1956

Topics

Confident Feel You Growing Say Mean

We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.

Joe Slovo

People Mood Need Respond Side Take

I watch people around me not drinking any water all day, and I turn into the water police. I'm constantly asking, 'Are you drinking water?' Being dehydrated very quickly affects my energy.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

Water Day Police People Me Energy

I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.

John C. Reilly

Think Fairy Tale Said Sails Movies

Winning the second grand slam, it was a bit different. I don't have anything to prove anymore. I am at the top: number one.

Angelique Kerber

I Am Winning Prove Top Anything

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

Sibel Kekilli

Yourself You Canada Difficult Years

My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house was full of books. We didn't get a television until 'That Was The Week That Was' started. There was nothing to do but read.

Tom Paulin

Parents People Week House Television

There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

Jon Krakauer

Humility Me Small Afraid Something

Nothing prepares a family for having multiple children at once.

Derek Fisher

Family Children Nothing Once Having

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Claudia Rankine

Imagination American Never Beginnings

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Clay Aiken

American Now Old Point Where Idol

Podcasting - it's a huge, huge thing now. 'The Fighter and the Kid' and the 'Big Brown Breakdown' reaches more people than a lot of shows on networks right now as far as television goes. It's such a loyal fan base, and I know my boxing. I'm really into it. I'm really honored to be a part of something like this. I feel like a glitch in 'The Matrix.'

Brendan Schaub

People Feel Television Know Fighter

I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.

Piers Corbyn

Queen College Research Physics Class