Walter Kirn Quotes

When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.

Walter Kirn

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MindLos AngelesPageWantPlaces

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Johannes Tauler

GodDayYouFallSeventyRise

People are always flabbergasted, like, 'You sing?'

Megan Mullally

PeopleYouAlwaysSingLike

If science doesn't convince you, just Google 'cheating politicians' for the long and sordid list of men - like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Sanford, and John Edwards - whose hormones got the best of them.

Mel Robbins

ScienceBestMenCheatingLongYou

Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea.

Matt Mullenweg

GoodTimeLawBelieveYouBecome

I did have quite a different upbringing to a lot of my peers. We all have a sort of code that we get, especially as Beatles kids. It's an unspoken sort of word of understanding. But I'm comfortable around a lot of different types of people.

Stella McCartney

PeopleUnderstandingComfortableGet

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.

Mike Pompeo

GoodServiceValueIdeasSomeone

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Joyce Meyer

LearningLiveYourselfYouTrain

A lot of millennials really want a company that signs their paycheck, or whoever it is that signs their paycheck, to be an entity that reflects to them in a way that is consistent with their personal idea of who they are.

Jason Kander

WantPersonalWaySignsMillennials

The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.

Cory Booker

ChildrenGeniusCountryOilGreatest

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

Bobby Jindal

StepMeYouBackNiceRing

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

Anurag Kashyap

FirstFilmVelvetBeforeAbout

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Anthony Bourdain

FoodThinkPictureSeriouslyBigger

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