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Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.

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Alex Pareene
American - Writer

Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.

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Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

Cynthia Ozick

The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.

Petr Skrabanek

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

Paul Goodman

If you're brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top.

Uri Geller

Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution - perhaps the first modern political institution.

Adam Gopnik

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

Rana Dasgupta

A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a remarkably wide range of examples and is distinguished by the relevance of its insights and by the precision and clarity of their exposition. It is an absorbing read that deserves to become a modern classic of political thinking.

Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

I said Revolver is my favorite The Beatles album, but only because it came to my head and it's a brilliant one. But they're all pretty brilliant. There's variations, but they're all brilliant, and it just depends on if they're very brilliant, or just a bit brilliant. It changes.

Nick Hodgson

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

Jennifer Lacy

It's very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st-century world if you set things up as, 'Everyone is against us. You can't believe modern science, modern media or modern political institutions because they're all conspiring against Christians.'

J. D. Vance

For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

Joe Klein

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

David Frum

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