Walter Kirn Quotes

I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

Walter Kirn

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PeopleFeelingUniversityOutUp

I guess people have a hard time dealing with humour in music. But sometimes life is depressing, and sometimes life is fun, is about just laughing with your friends, and I wanted to express that as well as the darker stuff.

Jim James

LifeMusicTimeFunPeopleFriends

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

Jim Lehrer

I AmPracticeStoryQuestionsAsking

I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.

Anderson East

LoveMusicGangsterCountryRap

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

Matthew Modine

FatherAgeLightValueMeYoung

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

BestPeopleWayTurnOutThings

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

John Sununu

LifeBusinessArtBlameColdBad

I don't believe I'll be in the new 'Arrested Development' unless they ask me, in which case, okay! That's how easy I am to get.

Simon Helberg

I AmMeBelieveEasyNewOkay

I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!

Simon Mawer

AloneEasyFindHeavenWriterVery

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

Ron Paul

WomenMenSupportSomeoneSometimes

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

Rupert Everett

PeopleThinkWeirdSweatSmellLike

I watch my diet and I eat right, but I am not on a strict diet.

Jose Aldo

I AmDietRightEatWatchStrict

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

David Twohy

ShortReachYouBadRightUp

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