David Lichtenstein Quotes

I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.

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• I feel like I personally have been lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Two
  • Editors
  • Review

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Love
  • Questions
  • Tradition

• Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Help
  • Free
  • Education

• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Back
  • Aggressive

• You want your coach's blessing.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Want
  • You
  • Blessing

• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Long
  • Career
  • Golf

• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Why
  • Home

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Uncertainty

• Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Ideas

• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Good
  • Character
  • Think

• When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Party

• I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Truth
  • Unique

• Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Education
  • City

• When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which is even more urban.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Up
  • Growing
  • City

• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Question
  • Teacher

• At Oculus, we're now looking at eye specialists, people who really understand how the human eye works, and how that affects human emotion.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • People

• I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.

  

  David Lichtenstein
  • City
  • Horse