Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

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• I respect the Premier League.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Respect
  • Premier League

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Know
  • Same
  • Clever

• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Kitchen
  • Eating
  • Lifting

• I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Parents
  • Wish
  • Guilt

• I resent ever being stereotyped.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Being
  • Ever
  • Resent

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Basketball
  • Image

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Humor

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Why
  • Question
  • See

• Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Family
  • Doing
  • Percent

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Good
  • Taken
  • Feel

• I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Great
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Health
  • Organization
  • Gun

• A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

  

  Charles Pollock
  • Time
  • Space
  • Simple

• There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Work
  • Business
  • Canada

• The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Smart
  • Create

• This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

  

  Hadley Freeman
  • World
  • Women
  • Smart

• Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Live

• I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • Smart