Kerby Jean-Raymond Quotes

'Bernie versus Bernie,' for me, is these two extremes of capitalism. It's Bernie Sanders, the ultimate socialist, and Bernie Madoff, the ultimate capitalist.

Kerby Jean-Raymond

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• People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Opponent
  • Aggression

• A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • God
  • Children
  • Help

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • World
  • Family
  • Shopping

• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Friend
  • Communication
  • Best Friend

• I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Need
  • Immigration
  • Rules

• One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

  

  Dan Flavin
  • Art
  • Think
  • Light

• Personally, I don't wear fur.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Wear
  • Personally
  • Fur

• As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Always
  • Trends
  • Just Because

• Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

  

  Walter Lord
  • She
  • Birthday
  • Lit

• To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Book
  • Mother
  • Wind

• We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • People
  • Work
  • History

• It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Know
  • Problem
  • Too Much

• I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Pretty
  • Energy
  • Heaven

• Certainly it is not so easy to pay something as it is to pay nothing, but it is easier to pay a large sum than it is to pay a larger one. And it is easier to pay any sum when we are able than it is to pay it before we are able.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Able
  • Pay
  • Sum

• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Selfish

• In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Men
  • Together

• Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

  

  Dave Barry

• Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

  

  George Farquhar
  • Marriage
  • Destiny

• I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Period
  • Literature

• Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.

  

  Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver
  • Feels
  • Matter
  • To Do

• To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Creative

• 'Bernie versus Bernie,' for me, is these two extremes of capitalism. It's Bernie Sanders, the ultimate socialist, and Bernie Madoff, the ultimate capitalist.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond