Walter Kirn Quotes

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

Walter Kirn

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This is the strangest life I've ever known.

Jim Morrison

LifeKnownEverStrangest

My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

MysteriousProjectStillObjects

I love that Cadillac ATS!

Joe Biden

LoveCadillacI Love

I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.

Jerry Orbach

New YorkRichThinkChoiceNewMore

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Robert Staughton Lynd

SayingWorthMeanThingsMostMakes

My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.

Steve Breen

MomOrangeConservativeArrowFBI

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me.

Lisa Randall

New YorkCityMeNewMuseumsKid

I feel like for me to write songs that I would be interested in as a listener, there has to be tension, and there has to be some kind of push and pull between reality and the potential of disaster.

Jason Isbell

MePotentialRealityFeelPushKind

The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The Price Is Right' are familiar.

Doug Davidson

WorkDayNightPlacePriceRight

Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.

Colin Camerer

LifeScienceMathematicsPeopleGame

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

OpportunityPeopleDemocracyThink

I'm not afraid to take a punch.

Austan Goolsbee

AfraidPunchTake

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