Carl Rakosi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
-
Fitzgerald was a modernist.
-
I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
-
I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
-
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
-
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
-
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
-
For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
-
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
-
I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
-
I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
-
My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
-
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
-
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
-
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
-
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
-
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
-
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
-
See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.
-
Marvel makes you feel like 'Iron Man' will show up at your front door to kill you if you say the wrong thing.
-
Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.
-
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
