David Rakoff Quotes
I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.David Rakoff
Quotes to Explore
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
Baz Luhrmann -
The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
Jack Reynor -
The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
Daniel D. Palmer -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
Jacki Weaver -
It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
Jackie Speier
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
Laura Marling -
I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
La'Porsha Renae -
It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
Sam Graves -
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes -
You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
Gary Larson
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson -
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
I have a good relationship with Lifetime.
Madchen Amick -
My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
Tamara Ecclestone -
A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
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We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
Jennifer Granholm -
Before seeing Truffaut's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid - I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity - a poetic comedy that's really funny.
Pauline Kael -
Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
Sabrina Carpenter -
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
Aristotle -
That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.
Louise Slaughter -
I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.
David Rakoff