Joel Grey Quotes

I worked with a lot of leading ladies: Bebe Neuwirth, Anne Rankin, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli. They're all phenomenal talents.

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• While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • War
  • Freedom

• Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Iceland

• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Listening

• Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Sometimes
  • Care
  • Laugh

• Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Movies

• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dark

• Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Live
  • Health
  • Wellbeing

• There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • Change
  • Water

• I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Age
  • Doing
  • Young

• I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Myself

• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

  

  Tacitus
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Remember
  • Today

• Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Men
  • Laughter

• You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.

  

  Ariel Sharon
  • Believe

• Es más fácil levantar la caída que no dejarla caer. Déjala caer y la levantarás.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Up
  • Done

• But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Fire

• In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Hearing
  • Dizzy
  • Charlie Parker

• I style my hair so frequently that I need a really good conditioner to keep it moisturized.

  

  Andra Day
  • Good
  • Style
  • Hair

• I worked with a lot of leading ladies: Bebe Neuwirth, Anne Rankin, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli. They're all phenomenal talents.

  

  Joel Grey