Philip Roth Quotes

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

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• Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Success
  • Face
  • Conventional

• I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Important
  • Sleep
  • Mood

• The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Like
  • Problems
  • Cultural

• I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Happy
  • Free

• I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Alone

• The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Star

• In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • School
  • History
  • High

• The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Family
  • Kitchen
  • Opening

• My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Long
  • Control
  • Fall

• I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Up
  • Law
  • Rules

• I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Regret
  • Wonderful
  • Minute

• Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Love
  • Say
  • Best Father

• 'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Character
  • Amazing

• One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Best
  • Limit

• One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Doing
  • Self

• It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Character
  • Interesting

• You need to get in studio; we're excited about the Pay 1 opportunity with Disney because those movies are not just movies. They're amazing family content that get flexed over and over again, forms great loyalty with our subscribers, and it's a real trust brand for parents as well.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• One has to fill up the heart with Knowledge. The Knowledge has a form that’s called 'upadesh' (nt: sub–country; also teaching, instruction). There are many countries such as England, Germany, and India, but Knowledge is not this kind of country. This country is something different. Knowledge is the thing that when it is realized, a person becomes free.

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Up
  • Different
  • Country

• I'm from Boston, and I'm hard-headed, opinionated and a good arguer.

  

  Kenny Wormald
  • Good

• One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Military

• I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Rock

• Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

  

  Philip Roth