Dinesh D'Souza Quotes

We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose.

Dinesh D'Souza

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• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • You
  • Model
  • Actor

• By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Free
  • Hands
  • Censorship

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Rich

• If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• In my final year of college, I was interning with L'Oreal, when during one of the photo shoots, a photographer suggested I become a model. I was working under Smira Bakshi, who was this really cool chick, as she was loaded, had her fun, and was successful. I basically aspired to be her.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • She
  • Fun
  • College

• The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Me
  • Big

• I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

  

  Hank Ballard
  • Rock
  • Picture
  • Without

• Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Journey
  • Nothing
  • Laugh

• God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind. It is the pure mind that perceives God, and at that time this ordinary mind does not function. A mind that has the slightest trace of attachment to the world cannot be called pure. When all the impurities of the mind are removed, you may call that mind Pure Mind or Pure Ātman.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• It means what it says.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• I am not gay. I never have been gay.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Gay

• After having explained this division, I contend that no intelligent person can assume that any of the actions of God can be vain, purposeless, or unimportant. According to our view and the view of all that follow the Law of Moses, all actions of God are 'exceedingly good.'

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • God
  • Law

• Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass. Rolling Stone (November 26, 1992).

  

  Layne Staley
  • November

• That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men

• Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Sleep

• There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

  

  Brody Jenner
  • Kids

• Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Control
  • Fighting

• My children have stolen my dreams in a very literal sense. I've lost months in the minutes and hours that Sabine and Zoey have needed me at night, their thin, butterfly-beating hearts pushed against me in the darkness.

  

  Alexi Zentner
  • Children
  • Night
  • Lost

• True she was old, true she was unbeautiful, true she therefore had no reason to smile, but kind ladies smiled, reason or no. They smiled not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Happy
  • Reason
  • Smiled

• We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza