Joan Didion Quotes

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

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• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Wedding

• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Way
  • Most

• When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Pressure

• Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Important
  • History
  • Tool

• I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Wife

• For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Lost

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • People
  • World
  • God

• At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Produce

• Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Thought

• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Awesome

• Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Possible
  • Hold
  • Grip

• I never forbid myself anything.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Anything

• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  

  Hannah More
  • Sin
  • Drunk
  • Punishment

• I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Kids
  • Water
  • Walking

• And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

  

  Mark Strand
  • Culture
  • Poetry

• It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Time
  • Done
  • Career

• I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Pool
  • Swimming