"Even though I'm a writer and I love books and writing books is my favorite thing to do, when you teach, and you can go through the history of children's television, and I show certain things, the students' jaws just drop. You're never going to hit the hammer quite as hard in print."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

David Bianculli

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #My Favorite Quotes

“Shift from judgment to compassion to love.”
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.”
“Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.”
“Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.”
“There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.”
“I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...”
“Soros is the best loss taker I've ever seen. He doesn't care whether he wins or loses on a trade. If a trade doesn't work, he's confident enough about his ability to win on other trades. There are a lot of shoes on the shelf; wear only the ones that fit. If you're extremely confident, taking a loss doesn't bother you.”

Source : "Stanley Druckenmiller's response to the Black Monday crash showed why he's such an amazing investor" by Ben Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. November 13, 2016.

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