Christopher Lasch Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. – Christopher Lasch Americans_ Quotes Banality Quotes Endless Quotes Erected Quotes Overcome Quotes Possibility Quotes Sense Quotes Social Quotes A society that has made ‘nostalgia’ a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
Rachel Khoo To follow my meal, I’d drink a glass of my uncle’s homemade apricot schnapps. He puts it in beautiful glass bottles and sells it at his local market in Austria. You don’t normally drink with Asian food, so this would be a fitting end to the meal. – Rachel Khoo
Ben Stein I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago. – Ben Stein
Barbara Billingsley People stopped me on the street and said ‘I can’t live up to you.’ Of course, they’re referring to June Cleaver. – Barbara Billingsley
Ann Patchett My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven, but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help, I would be there for them. – Ann Patchett
Clarence Seedorf I’m not Zidane and not Rui Costa, but I have qualities – I can create assists – but I have to step up a level to become like those two. – Clarence Seedorf
Dean KoontzMovies Somebody asked me about the current choice we’re being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it’s like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. – Dean Koontz
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