Brendan Gill
Brendan Gill
Brendan Gillwrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 October 1914
CountryUnited States of America
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If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing; it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.
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We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed.
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It depends on what they find. Basically, they're replacing lighting devices, doing some troubleshooting and eliminating any trouble with the current lighting.
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If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.
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We're going to take a closer look at how notification needs to occur.
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If the state were to suspend the gas tax, it would most likely result in the state being sued by the bondholders,
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Based on the forecast, we do predict icing will be a problem.
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We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe.
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We're going to address the problem. If you want to characterize that as a shift in the position of the department, that would be fair.
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Express doesn't necessarily mean faster. It just means direct -- direct to the bridge.
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What exactly happened? How did our practices work? Could we have done more?