Daniel Okrent Quotes

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

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• I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Red
  • Down

• Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Walking
  • Fearless

• Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Heaven

• You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Die

• I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • American
  • Actor
  • Works

• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Impossible
  • Word
  • Fools

• I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Wife

• I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Small
  • Child
  • Little Things

• A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hellAnd bad the sheep carouse. Or so they said. Children in love with them brought early flowers And scattered them about, no two alike.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Children
  • Bad

• While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • True
  • Science

• The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • People
  • American
  • Moral

• I'm a feminist and the theme of her song is, 'When you're ready come and get it from me.' I'm sick of women being portrayed this way.

  

  Lorde
  • Women
  • Song
  • Sick

• I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time
  • Business
  • America

• When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • House
  • Parents
  • Dies

• My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Help
  • Small

• I did three of the original 'Twilight Zone' episodes, yes. Also, I did a little thing in the feature film, and then I wrote one of the episodes in 'The Twilight Zone's last round where I starred with Cloris Leachman and my daughter Liliana in a true sequel to 'It's a Good Life.' So, yes, I have a good 'Twilight Zone' alumni jacket.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • Life
  • Good
  • True

• Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also. This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Accepting

• I mean the number one reframe with different people is, there is no one right answer to your life. There are lots of great yous, there's no one single best you and by the way, you never actually know about the ones you didn't get a chance to try. We're all getting partial credit on easy questions, not right, wrong on true or false, on all the big issues of life. That's the same, once you accept that, that's the nature of being a human being, then how's it going to day, it's going reasonably well, which is fabulous because that's as good as it gets.

  

  Dave Evans
  • People
  • Different
  • Mean

• Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

  

  Daniel Okrent