Walter Kirn Quotes

Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'

Walter Kirn

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I think, in the long run, we have to wean ourselves from a carbon-based economy. We absolutely have to.

John F. Kerry

ThinkLongRunEconomyAbsolutely

'The Big Short' is, among other things, a blistering, detailed indictment of the way Wall Street does business, and its particular villains are the investment banks.

John Lanchester

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A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

Matthew Fox

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Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.

Jean Nidetch

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Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.

Amitava Kumar

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We want to see huge growth in this economy in small- and medium-sized businesses.

Steve Mnuchin

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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.

Mika

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With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.

Michel Hazanavicius

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I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

Misty May-Treanor

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I feel everyone should feel empowered to live their best life.

JoJo Siwa

LifeLiveBestFeelEveryoneI Feel

Once you win, you get used to winning, and that's not a bad thing.

David Silva

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