Kurt Andersen Quotes

#1. Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad.

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#2. Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

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#3. I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

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#4. The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

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#5. Back then I used to say that I despised the new coinage "quality time," that it was yuppie parents' smiley-face equivalent to lawyers' "billable hours.

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#6. 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.

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#7. I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.

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

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