Donna Leon Quotes

Favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

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• I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Creative
  • Most

• The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Without

• What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Up
  • Ideas

• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • Look
  • Forward

• People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Man
  • Hell

• I love London, I love the British people.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • People
  • Love
  • London

• I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • People
  • Money
  • Doubt

• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • People
  • Idea
  • Nothing

• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Love
  • Remember

• I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Novels

• Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Live
  • Die

• There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Taken

• I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Different
  • Things
  • Doing

• Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Bad
  • Excuses

• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Changes
  • Detail

• When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • People
  • American
  • Pool

• Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Work
  • Power

• He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Breakfast
  • Lake
  • Replaced

• Outlets are turning away from phone polling, which can be problematic. For example, we did a poll for NBC around the Ebola crisis; we provided results in 24 hours. Their traditional phone poll would have taken a week to turn around. We're showing people we can do high-quality work: we've proved that with the work we do with the media.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • People
  • Work
  • High

• Favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

  

  Donna Leon
  • People
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  • Favors