Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

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• We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • People
  • Work
  • She

• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Think
  • Car

• You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Life
  • Run
  • Wait

• I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Experience
  • Picture
  • Advertising

• We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gold

• If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Think
  • Old
  • Grow

• I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Love
  • Giving

• If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • You
  • Energy
  • Drive

• I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Life
  • Myself
  • I Can

• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • You
  • Negative
  • Surprise

• I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Country
  • Internet
  • Influence

• I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• Sometimes when I am driving I get so angry at inconsiderate drivers that I want to scream at them. But then I remember how insignificant that is, and I thank God that I have a car and my health and gas. That was phrased wrong - normally you wouldn't say, thank God I have gas.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • God
  • Remember
  • Health

• If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Political
  • Action

• A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

  

  Neale Donald Walsch
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

  

  Chester Brown
  • Culture

• You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Funny
  • Best

• There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski
  • Action