Terry Teachout Quotes

I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s and '70s. My attitude resembles that of my parents, who were born in the '20s and lived through the Great Depression and World War II.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AttitudeGreatDepressionParents

I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.

Jimmy Smith

ColoradoJustKidsHornsAspenCame

I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!

John Francis Daley

BossBecomeHorribleBecauseJust

Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading, and most Americans don't know much about China, in-depth, even though China is such a crucial business partner, rival, whatever.

Anchee Min

BusinessPartnerThinkKnowWhatever

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.

Amy Adams

MyselfSchoolPeopleMeHairWeird

You're going to find out who your friends are. Anything that happens in your life is one of those challenges. It may not be at the level of celebrity, but everybody's going to travel that road.

Stanley A. McChrystal

LifeTravelChallengesRoadFriends

I'm not big with negotiating.

Steve Schirripa

BigNegotiating

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

Roy H. Williams

BusinessSchoolPeopleAdvertising

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.

Mike Wallace

Growing UpFeelYouBadGrowingKid

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.

Lisa Kudrow

SmartRedHairSexyBlondeComedy

Yorkshire weather can turn quickly. At one Auld Lang Syne race, it dropped to -16C. The frost turned everybody's hair grey. I couldn't take my shoes off, as my laces had frozen solid.

Jonathan Brownlee

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It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

Jonathan Kellerman

GoodGreatTimeTiredFeelWay

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.

Chiaki Kuriyama

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