"Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the……" — Michael Hastings
"Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold."
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25 Quotes by Michael Hastings
Michael Hastings has 25 quotes on this site.
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The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former…
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A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for…
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The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the…
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Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising,
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When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.
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I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense…
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It was either write or die for me.
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I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.
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I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.
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I was very fortunate to have fallen in love with an amazing woman. She was killed in a very horrible,…
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As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa…
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Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
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More Absurdity Quotes
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
— Joseph Addison
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
— Samuel Butler
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
— Lord Byron
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
— Albert Camus
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
— Albert Camus
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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