Kurt Andersen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.
-- Kurt Andersen

#Intellectual #Wonderful #Century
If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.
-- Kurt Andersen

#Honesty #Political #Intellectual
Maybe the reality-based fractions of red and blue America are reaching a sort of consensus: Just as Republicans are beginning to get why George Bush makes so many Americans want to rip their hair out, a lot of Democrats have finally, viscerally come to understand Clinton-loathing. Mutual, symmetrical disillusionment; it's a start.
-- Kurt Andersen

#Rip #Reality #Hair
Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is that it's all downhill from here. So I would just as soon believe, in my optimistic Midwestern American way, that we will recover and maybe even make lemonade out of the lemons that we are faced with.
-- Kurt Andersen

#Believe #Optimistic #Progress
I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a so-called developed society. In that sense, we are outliers. Are we suckers? Yes, but it's not just that. That puts too fine a point on what I am saying. We're not idiots and victims. It's about us as a people, compared with, say, Canadians, believing whatever we believe because, well, we're Americans, we feel this way without regard for what scholars and scientists say.
-- Kurt Andersen

#Educational #Believe #People
I am proud to be American. We wouldn't have our big dreams without this quality, but if we can't agree on the shape of reality, when a White House, on the second day of a new administration, is arguing for alternative facts, that's problematic.
-- Kurt Andersen

#Dream #Reality #House

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!
Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

Kurt Andersen famous quotes

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