Peter Arno Quotes

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

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• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Up
  • Power
  • Growing

• I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Try

• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Good
  • Men
  • Real

• I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Drive

• Writing has never been that simple for me.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Simple

• Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Challenge
  • Acceptance

• If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Family
  • Yourself

• I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Friends
  • Doors
  • Iran

• When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Wife
  • Woman
  • Husband

• All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Age

• As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Technology

• I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

  

  Benedict Wong
  • Grandson

• I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Life
  • Intimacy

• I think if you just made a film that says, 'This is anti-war,' and you had to spend two hours explaining that... you don't like war? Wow, that's original. Know what I mean?

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • War

• I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Fashion

• I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Ocean

• You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Time
  • World
  • See

• When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Work
  • Feeling

• My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Dance
  • Teacher
  • Champion

• We would probably claim Kafka as an Irish writer. His tone of voice is certainly quite Irish: that sense of melancholy, that sense of strangeness and of being a stranger in the world. I think that we empathise with that very much indeed.

  

  John Banville
  • World
  • Irish

• So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Entrance
  • Visitor
  • Chamber door

• Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

  

  Peter Arno