Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Jerzy Kosinski

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• I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Peace

• A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • She
  • Job
  • Professional

• If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • You
  • Government
  • Talk

• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Analysis
  • Suffered
  • He

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Career
  • Feel
  • Successful

• In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Job
  • Personality
  • Philosophy

• A leader is a dealer in hope.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Hope
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Power
  • Question
  • Progress

• How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • You
  • Possible

• If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.

  

  Rajneesh

• So I was drinking tequila, and I was drinking grappa, which is Italian for gasoline, and I was drinking Jägermeister, which I believe is the liquid equivalent of Wonder Woman's golden lasso, because it will make you tell anybody the truth for no reason whatsoever. 'You have really bad skin. Thanks for the drink.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Bad

• I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Up
  • Beer
  • Tattoo

• To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Time
  • Good
  • Value

• Naked is the best disguise.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• When I was 5 years old, Hulk Hogan was the world to a lot of little kids.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • World
  • Kids

• They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Stop
  • Trust

• All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Independence

• My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Time
  • Me
  • Mom

• To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

  

  John Leguizamo

• The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski