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Keith Gessen Quotes

Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1975

Topics

Reputation Bad Used Got Then

I'm really proud to represent both cultures, Canadian and Indian, and hopefully I'm making both countries proud as WWE champion.

Champion Proud Cultures WWE Making

In their infancy, startups need geniuses who fit their current tight-knit culture and will iterate quickly as they push towards an ambitious vision - and they need a scaffolding of advisors, strategists, early users, and product-thinkers around these savants to guide them.

Vision Culture Push Early Will Need

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Father Mother Impossible You Born

We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend.

Business Tax Need Take Cut Off

When an authoritarian regime starts taking down feeds and blocking websites just because we expose the truth... that's an attack on freedom of the press everywhere. When authoritarian regimes around the world start attacking journalists like that, we all have a problem.

Truth Freedom World Start Problem

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Music Influence Opinions Others Own

For many courtesans, it was over by age 22.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

Change Future Faith Courage World

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

Love Character Acting Skin Always

As a policy maker, I have to stand up for the rights of all my constituents, regardless of their faith.

Faith Stand Up Stand Policy Rights

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man Wind Know Plans Aim Right

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley

Beauty Grief Shadow Pain Mind Gift

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