James Lipton Quotes

When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.

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• I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Support
  • Grateful

• These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • May
  • Success

• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Exploring
  • Dropping

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Long
  • Love

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Future
  • Motivational
  • Now

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • City
  • Simple

• Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • You
  • Hand
  • Looking

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Books
  • Reasons
  • Explain

• Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

  

  Keri Russell
  • Time
  • Loner

• My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.

  

  Lucy Griffiths
  • Fear
  • Girly

• I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

  

  J Mascis
  • Pretty

• There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Choose

• I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.

  

  James Lipton
  • People