"The lies the government and media tell are……" — James Wolcott
"The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself."
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54 Quotes by James Wolcott
James Wolcott has 54 quotes on this site.
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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class…
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More Amplification Quotes
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style:…
— Thomas Sprat
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Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By…
— David Tudor
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Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting,…
— Tim Hughes
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When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
— Renee Fleming
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Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and…
— PZ Myers
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I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
— Brownie McGhee
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for…
— Adam Gopnik
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The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation;…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a…
— Alan Jay Lerner
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The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we…
— Mike DeWine
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I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like…
— Francois Hollande
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