Beth Riesgraf Quotes

I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy.

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• Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Country
  • Olympics

• When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Up
  • Best
  • Winning

• If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • World
  • Team
  • Best

• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Hours
  • Four
  • Six

• We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Time
  • Small
  • Jesus

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Hand

• If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Long
  • Wait

• Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Great
  • Power
  • Science

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Man
  • Black

• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • People
  • Know
  • First

• I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Loved

• A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Plan
  • Employees
  • Edge

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Up
  • Through
  • Museums

• I feel like a famous Indian Chief of the Fagowee nations, who led his tribe for 40 years in the desert amidst starvation, hunger, famine, strife, plague - finally staggered up to the top of this mountain, drug crazed, looked out and pounded his chest and said, 'Where the fuck are we? Where the fuck are we?'

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Up
  • Famous
  • Mountain

• I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib
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• And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Believe
  • Matter

• I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy.

  

  Beth Riesgraf
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