Bess Myerson Quotes

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Bess Myerson

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• I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Like
  • First
  • Ambassador

• Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Cool
  • Baby
  • Loved

• You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Up
  • You
  • Story

• Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movies
  • Dreams
  • Makeup

• Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Past
  • Desire
  • Body

• For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Words

• In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Communication

• I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Always
  • Too Much

• I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Stand

• I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Up
  • Me
  • Interest

• If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Stress
  • Appearance
  • Too Much

• If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Great
  • Done
  • Accountability

• I try and be a little bit chic. I wouldn't wear sweatpants. I wouldn't wear a twinset.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Try
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • College
  • Myself

• There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire. But so far, I've continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Time
  • Me
  • Myself

• I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Concentration

• The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Learning

• The floor of the U.S. Senate isn't a place that usually sees a lot of drama.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Drama

• There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.

  

  Martha Smith
  • People
  • Different
  • Japanese

• If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Trust

• Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

  

  Bess Myerson