Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004

Topics

ThinkEarlyWriteOpenDiscover

I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.

Angie Everhart

TimeMyselfMeHairColorThought

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin

TruthSmallHumanCompleteInstant

I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.

Steven Van Zandt

LifeTimePoliticalArtistFirst

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Ronald Reagan

PurposePossibleNeedExistenceOwn

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

Clay Aiken

JobMeGlassesHairShoppingNose

No one has a copyright on working-class struggles.

Boots Riley

CopyrightStrugglesWorking-Class

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Philip James Bailey

ManAnimalMilitaryMemorial Day

I haven't found anything to complain about. But being Scottish, it won't be long.

Peter Capaldi

LongComplainAnythingBeingFound

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Jan Karon

FaithRisksMeDreamLivingFollow

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

Emir Kusturica

PeopleFamousFamous PeoplePresence

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Charles Spurgeon

HopeTrustLieI AmMeJesus Christ

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Bryn Terfel

GoodIdeasCalmYouActingPossible

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