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Walter Kirn Quotes

On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.

Walter Kirn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1962

Topics

Space Face Wish Editing Possible

Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.

Jill Lepore

God History Time Past Grace Present

All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.

Joel McHale

Funny People Care Laugh Jokes About

We need comprehensive immigration reform. Dr. King wouldn't be pleased at all to know that there are millions of people living in the shadow, living in fear in places like Georgia and Alabama.

John Lewis

Fear Shadow King People Immigration

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life Man Risk Right Preservation

Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.

Amanda Lindhout

Family Father Mother Wife Support

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Simon van der Meer

Family Father Mother Teacher Came

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

Responsibility Government Baby End

I was all personality and no talent.

Ruby Keeler

Personality Talent No Talent

When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.

Michael Paterniti

Moment Story Long You Timeless Sort

So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

Deborah Wiles

Live History Story Moments Become

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.

Christine Quinn

Life Time Personality Job I Am Done

The folks that are suggesting Occupy move to electoral politics are ignoring history, ignoring what actually creates change. People get involved in electoral politics because they think there is no movement that can create change.

Boots Riley

Change History Politics People Think