Walter Lippmann Quotes

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

Walter Lippmann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RichLearnEnoughNowNeedDefend

When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.

Jim Cooper

MoneyHelpYouPartyPlaceElection

In 100 billion years, the universe will be a very strange place.

John C. Mather

UniversePlaceStrangeWillYears

'Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

John C. McGinley

LearnWantLinesYour

Growing up in Texas, mum had five girls to feed on a very limited budget, so we'd end up eating the same thing until it was gone - some weeks it was carrots.

Jerry Hall

Growing UpEatingTexasEndBudget

I love travelling and use my time abroad to be inspired.

Jenny Packham

LoveTimeInspiredMy TimeAbroad

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Mankoff

PeopleThinkKnowGoingMost

There's two ways of dealing with fears of mortality. One of them is to hide, so every day you wear the same suit and go to the same job... and the other is to reinvent yourself. I think I reinvent myself all the time. The idea that I would have to be one thing for the rest of my life would just be a soul-destroying idea.

John Ralston Saul

LifeTimeMyselfDayJobYourself

I came out when I was 17. I was in the church; I was crying every Sunday for about a year. I came to terms with the fact with this is who I was - I wasn't going to be able to be a different person. At 17, you feel like a freak already, and so to have that fire and brimstone against your attraction is just screwed up!

Mary Lambert

FireChurchFeelYearYouPerson

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

LifeFearLiveCreativeLoseWrong

My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that experience. My fortes in school were Spanish, sports, reading and theater. That's what they encouraged.

Joie Lee

MotherSportsExperienceJobSchool

I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn't really learn how to fight.

Arjun Kapoor

FightSchoolLearnActingDancing

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

Philipp Meyer

SchoolBicycleMechanicGoTrauma

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