Donna Leon Quotes

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

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• I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Family
  • Today
  • Overcome

• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
  • Process
  • Legislative

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • End
  • Stage
  • Immigration

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Why

• I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Love
  • Really
  • Bond

• The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Great
  • Power
  • Supreme Court

• I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Eat
  • Sure
  • Least

• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Job
  • Society

• Winning, you can overlook so many things.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Winning
  • Things

• The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Men
  • Experience

• I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Think
  • Words
  • Feelings

• There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Health

• Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Rock

• The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • My Life

• You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • Kids
  • Simple

• I'm more of a people pleaser.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • More
  • Pleaser

• Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

  

  David Harvey
  • Value

• I've worked with people from Fred Zinnemann, John Huston, through to Richard Fleischer, all of those boys from Hollywood and so on, and Sam Peckinpah and then the Mike Radfords.

  

  John Hurt
  • People

• The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

  

  Donna Leon
  • City
  • Italian
  • Loyalty