Quotes for All
I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I’m thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely. David Talbot
Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics. David Plotz
My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: ‘I love America, I just want it to be perfect, which it will be when it becomes a Soviet Communist state’. When the left called for ‘liberation’ what it really wanted was to erase the human slate … Read more
It was a lot of fun to play a character [in Swiss Army Man] with no inhibitions, and with no knowledge of the world, and who comes into the world kind of like a blank slate. It means there’s no template or blueprint for how you need to play certain scenes. Daniel Radcliffe
Debts that must be paid … that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us … Read more
One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. Colum McCann
The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked… Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the … Read more
A lot of people approach their barn or horse like they are going to war, because it’s been going badly. So you pick up the next day in a defensive mode instead of cleaning the slate and starting fresh. Animals live so much in the moment, so if you’re bringing baggage from yesterday you’re already … Read more
You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience. Cillian Murphy
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn’t hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean – at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could … Read more