Jeff Baena Quotes

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

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• I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • American
  • Parents

• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Time
  • Place
  • Individual

• When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Exercise
  • Find
  • Gym

• I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Earth

• If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Duty

• But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Good
  • Real
  • Man

• I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Family

• Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Music
  • You
  • Fiction

• The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Know
  • Internet

• These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Power
  • Words
  • Government

• The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Respect
  • Independent
  • Wanted

• I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Violence

• Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Living
  • Background

• Fighting was something inside of me that I didn't realize was there.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Fighting

• I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Picture

• I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with Negroes, I am for it without Negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed, I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Life
  • Space
  • Slavery

• I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Great
  • Job
  • Nice

• When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

  

  Jeff Baena