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Walter Kirn Quotes

It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.

Walter Kirn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Culture Politics New York Voting New

When I was graduating from college, the things I valued most were family, faith, and philanthropy. I refer to them as the three f's, phonetically speaking.

Robert Kraft

Family Faith College Three Things

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Life Good Forgiveness Ready Always

To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Work Silence Space Look More Open

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

Demi Lovato

Happy You Person Go Through Things

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

David Trimble

Reality Political Circumstances Give

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Alfred North Whitehead

Literature Humanity Concrete Outlook

One of the important things for me is that my father is from Sri Lanka. But even more importantly, he was a consultant for the World Bank.

Sunil Yapa

Father Me World Important Consultant

My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn't it?

Sylvester Stallone

Doubt Healthy Know Snack Would

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

Peter Thiel

Change Future People Think View You

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

Tim Scott

American Fairness Workplace Policy

Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview.

Timothy Morton

Art Job Smart Writing Performance

Americans overwhelmingly believe that Americans who want to do jobs, who are looking for work, should have a fair opportunity, if not a preference, to do that work.

Kellyanne Conway

Work Opportunity Looking Believe Who