Garrison Keillor Quotes

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1942

Topics

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I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

Joaquin Phoenix

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The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

Max Levchin

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I kind of love working on film because television in live, that's tricky.

Rob Marshall

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What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet.

Rod Lurie

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The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

Russell Banks

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The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Dennis Hastert

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If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.

Corey Taylor

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I had always wanted to see the world, and the PGA Tour was always going to be there.

Peter Uihlein

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I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

Shaquille O'Neal

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My fans are so important to me, and I would never want to disappoint them.

Selena Gomez

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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

Maria Semple

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I love Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, and Miguel.

LeToya Luckett

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