Janet Flanner
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Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee? 
Solitude is un-American. 
UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish. 
Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representativ... 
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representati... 
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representati... 
Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President. 
In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no ro... 
They gave it me . . . for an un-birthday present. 
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. 
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. 
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the... 
He [T. E. Lawrence] had a genius for backing into the limelight. 
We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia... 
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. 
one of the most un-American things that one can imagine. 
A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a... 
..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that ... 
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or p... 
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or ph... 
Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. 
What could be the utopia for the present age?
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an A... 
The taking of private property for private use, in my estimation, is unconstitutional. It's un-Ameri... 
Parler est un besoin, écouter est un art. 
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some... 
American politics is always an open competition. 
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome ... 
No great genius is without an admixture of madness. 
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... 
Music resembles poetry, in each
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only
an organizing genius could produce... 
Genius is an African who dreams up snow. 
Genius is an African who dreams up snow 
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with Ameri... 
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. 
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you mus... 
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net. 
It is a truism of American politics that no man who can win an election deserves to. 
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.' 
I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spir... 
THE THING WAS, William had a kind of genius for not noticing what he didn’t want to notice. 
Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refus... 
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted prin... 
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. 
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. 
'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audien... 
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an Am... 
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the ... 
Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... 
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C... 
Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, ... It's time for... 
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within... 
A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu... 
One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the probl... 
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape. 
We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and... 
Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because mon... 
Financial market participants appear to recognize the FOMC's data-dependent approach because inc... 
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it... 
My father, that silhouette, a form comprised of all I did not
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul roo... 
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. 
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that ... 
I have a spelling checker
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength. 
It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little momen... 
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the l... 
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qu... 
It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break fre... 
I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms... 
The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect... 
The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly. 
Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much e... 
I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a... 
I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've... 
It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or d... 
I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist ... 