Walter Kirn Quotes

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Walter Kirn

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Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.

Jimmy Iovine

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O'Malley wanted to move the Dodgers out of Brooklyn because he saw the promised land. He was right about that, but to this day I think he was wrong to take the Dodgers out of Brooklyn.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

John Oliver

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I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

Ann Landers

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Coming out of WWII, there was the assumption, the hope, the vision of a world at peace, of a kind of Wilsonian universalism, that we and the Soviets would get along, we'd have a kind of lovefest for as far into the future as anyone could see.

Robert Dallek

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Philadelphia's Schuylkill River has long been the mother of waters for mid-Atlantic rowers, just as the Charles, which separates Boston from Cambridge, is for New England boaters.

Roger Morris

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I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

Mike Honda

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In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.

Mika

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The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

Michael Moore

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Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget.

Mitt Romney

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Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

Jonathan Haidt

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