Walter Kirn Quotes

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Walter Kirn

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They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

Jello Biafra

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To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.

Max Heindel

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In my younger days, I used to visit record shops and covet boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies, Wagner operas, Bach cantatas, Mozart piano concertos. Only rarely was I able to find the money for such luxuries.

Michael Dirda

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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Steve Allen

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If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Townsend Harris

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Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.

Logan Green

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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Yorkshire is so much part of me.

Susan Hill

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The truth is I'm a very traditional woman, and Rod - despite everything people may think - is a very traditional man. It's true he absolutely loves glamour, and he hasn't got a conventional job, but performing aside, he's happiest at home with his kids around him or lounging in front of the fire watching a war documentary like 'D-Day Remembered.'

Penny Lancaster

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We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

Richard Branson

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I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

Richard D. James

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A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.

Kyle Dunnigan

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