Walter Kirn Quotes

Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.

Walter Kirn

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NaturePeopleWinFeelYouTurn

If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works.

Matt Lauer

BalanceGoNewWayOldShirt

I don't feel like I'm a hero.

Ron Stallworth

HeroFeelLike

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Luke Bryan

WorkLoveGreatWaitingWork Hard

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Dolly Parton

GoodAttitudeHeartTimeHappyBorn

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

Christopher Eccleston

YearRidiculousThreeTwoLeadDays

Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.

Scott Pruitt

ReligionFreeSpeechExerciseRights

I love playing FIFA on my PlayStation!

Tiesto

LovePlaystationPlayingFIFAI Love

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

Nigella Lawson

SomeonePatientWonderfulEndlessly

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Ricardo Montalban

LoveGoodPoliticsPatriotismHonor

There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.

Mario Van Peebles

AmericaEnvironmentYouBornPlaces

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

Lysander Spooner

JusticeGovernmentPeopleLawJudge

Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.

Kristin Armstrong

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