Walter Kirn Quotes

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

Walter Kirn

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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

John Dryden

SoulJealousy

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

DefeatNeverFreshDiscouragement

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.

Robert Nozick

SameProbabilityUpKeepTestsFact

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

Robert Goulet

BoxingKidBeenFanSinceEver

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

Sonakshi Sinha

LifeMenI AmDressThinkDoing

If you're 19, you don't know what can't be done.

Steven Levy

YouKnowDone

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

Stockard Channing

LifeAmazingGrowing UpKindLiving

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

Steve Vai

PeopleVoicePassionateHumanHard

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

Tony Snow

KindnessFoodSimpleHelpYouPoor

If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before.

Tom Frieden

StopWellJustBeforeThoseMeasles

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

Romola Garai

JobThinkYouPersonWantDifferent

I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.

Ron White

LoveMoneyPeopleCareLaughLiving

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