Janet Weiss Quotes
You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.
Quotes to Explore
-
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
-
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
-
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
-
Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
-
I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
-
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
-
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
-
Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
-
There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
-
My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
-
Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?
-
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
-
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
-
Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
-
People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
-
My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
-
I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.
-
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
-
The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what's happening with the immigration debate. While that's an important debate that has security and moral implications, in my view, there's also a huge history of Latinos in the United States that's never been told.
-
We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion. (22)
-
I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).
-
Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.
-
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
-
You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.
