#vicarious

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously. ↗

— Richard Powers

#liked #only #place #someone #still

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#great #relief #vicariously #worst

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#adolescence #because #certainly #daughter #did

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#journalist #live #lot #other #people

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#also #because #being #could #dream

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#character #come #course #during #feel

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No. ↗

— David Boies

#alleged #contributory #copyright #engage #liability

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#car #experience #forget #having #hours

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. ↗

— Joe Williams

#aesthetic #almost #between #bringing #forget