Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

Kenneth Lonergan

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• Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Friend
  • Wife
  • Best

• I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Time
  • Live
  • Nature

• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Wife

• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Teaching
  • Appreciative

• My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Thinking
  • Dreams
  • Emotions

• John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • War
  • World War II

• There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Certain

• Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Half
  • Meeting
  • Rare

• My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

  

  Doc Rivers
  • History

• I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

  

  Donna Mills

• Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Good
  • Game
  • Learning

• Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape. We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We're a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It's impossible.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Growing
  • Inspiration
  • Destiny

• Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.

  

  James P. Gorman

• The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will see what is our level to achieve our battles.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • People
  • Game
  • City

• My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Father
  • Words
  • Law

• If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • War
  • Military

• A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

  

  Franklin Pierce
  • Popular

• Everyone is beautiful, everyone is perfect, and everyone is lovely.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect
  • Lovely

• I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Teen