Emily Weiss Quotes

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Emily Weiss

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• We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Up
  • Want
  • House

• I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Trust
  • Find

• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Difficult
  • Pleasure
  • Bear

• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • May
  • History
  • Culture

• The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Diversity
  • Filmmaking

• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Band
  • New

• I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Study
  • Language
  • Tough

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Day
  • Only

• I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Think
  • Change
  • Inspired

• I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • School
  • Feeling
  • High School

• You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Game
  • Defeat

• I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Happy
  • Want

• I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
  • You
  • Attention

• In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• When I retired from professional chess in 2005 to join the Russian pro-democracy movement against Putin, I was frequently asked how my chess experience might help me in politics. My answer was that it wouldn’t help much at all, because in chess we had fixed rules and uncertain results, while in Russian politics it was exactly the opposite.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Democracy

• When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it. If I see a chair in a beautiful space, no matter how beautiful the chair is, it can never be as beautiful to me as the plain space.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Beautiful
  • Lost
  • Space

• Animals tell us something. If the animals have suffered this way from GMOs, potentially for us, let’s listen to what they’re telling us. Let’s take heed.

  

  Jane Goodall

• Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi

• The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people are vegetarian for one day a week, that makes a huge difference!

  

  Emily Deschanel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

  

  John Madden
  • Bad
  • Team

• If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Hell
  • Ifs

• For male and female entrepreneurs alike, having a woman investor can bring credibility when discussing product positioning and expansion opportunities.

  

  Emily Weiss