Walter Lippmann Quotes

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974

Topics

KnowledgePrideMissionTemptation

I'm not a kingmaker.

Jim DeMint

GreatPeopleThinkAmericaCountry

Yoga really destresses me.

Jodie Comer

MeYogaReally

Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.

Jens Lekman

GoodMeEveningDJBandWould

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

CouragePurposeDirectionEnough

The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.

Andy Biersack

MusicWritingMoreInterestGet

Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.

John Strachan

NewNamesHeadDisciplesPeter

I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the same way we've all accepted that normal is white, everybody seems to buy into the idea that there's only one way to be black or one way to be Hispanic. That's as damaging as anything else.

Shonda Rhimes

TimeBlackWhiteSayWayAnything

'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.

Tom Shales

TimeTelevisionRealPureExample

Traffic terrifies me.

Moby

MeTraffic

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

TruthTogetherMovingYouLookKind

If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!

Chrisette Michele

TomorrowPeopleSongYouYesterday

Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?

Bob Goff

LifeYouCareerWhat IfOverLeft

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