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Walter Kirn Quotes

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1962

Topics

Life Uncertainty Gambling Worth Make

Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.

Work Religion People World Bridges

In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambitions, but that didn't stop us from studying Marxism in theory and Communism in practice to better understand that adversary.

War Practice Communism Cold Better

Americans are right to believe the American Dream is fading. But that dream only became a possibility for white men as a result of the labor struggles and reforms of the New Deal, and it began to extend to minorities and women only after the civil rights and women's movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Stephanie Coontz

Women Men American Dream Believe New

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Excellence Always Technical Been

In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

Day Death Flag Thirty President

Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper.

Science Step Forward Think Hollywood

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

Nature Beauty Mother Attitude World

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

Great Creative Think America Order

I don't really care how we done it, we done it.

Care Done How Really

People don't realize I make records eight or nine months before they come out. I'm directing the videos; I have a lot of work to do. I'm very involved in all that stuff creatively.

Work People Realize Out Videos Come

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

Myself Challenge Day Disappointment

I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.

Think Chemistry Between I Think Them

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