Mark Rydell Quotes

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.

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• Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Thousand

• Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Always

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Music
  • You
  • Timeless

• Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Professional

• Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Ideas
  • End
  • Wealth

• He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• All of the stars rotate, have orbits around the center of the galaxy, and most of them go around the center of the galaxy in nearly circular orbits. They vary a little bit from circular, but they're predominantly circular.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Stars
  • Little
  • Galaxy

• Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Girl
  • Lunch
  • Likes

• I consider myself a little weak.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Myself
  • Little
  • Weak

• My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • American
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Education is very important to me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Important
  • Education
  • Me

• I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Mother

• If she forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • She

• My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'

  

  Kevin Hart
  • She
  • Dad
  • Daughter

• It is really this “mathematical mindset” that seems to be most useful to those who are not trained to think as mathematicians.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Think
  • Mindset
  • Mathematicians

• I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.

  

  Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Thoughts

• It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.

  

  Mark Rydell