Joe Mantello Quotes

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

Joe Mantello

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• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Fashion
  • Never
  • Try

• I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Control
  • Alone

• Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Real
  • Chicago
  • Real estate

• We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • May
  • Wall
  • Jerusalem

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• I love the free spirit in London.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Free
  • Spirit
  • London

• I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Know
  • Lucky

• I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Together

• Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Joy
  • Smile
  • Tears

• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • Winning
  • Win

• Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Words
  • You
  • Yourself

• Trump says a lot of things that are crazy... Trump's a moron.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Crazy
  • Trump

• In a society where commonweal does not exist, there are no duties, only exactations to be avoided, and no freedoms, only privileges to be grabbed. There can be no such thing as 'public services' because nothing in the country is truly public. Everything is somebody's fief. And every fief must be exploited if the exploiter cares to survive.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Society

• 'She obeys me, but only because she wants to.''It’s the only justification for obedience,' Ged observed.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She

• The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Fall

• How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Bad

• I wish I'd made 'Warrior,' and I wish I'd made 'Drive.'

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Wish
  • Warrior

• To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • World
  • Mind

• Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.

  

  Ken Hill
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Random

• In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

  

  Michael Musto
  • Deception
  • Alternatives
  • Exhausted

• No matter where they are in the world, those who commit crimes against U.S. citizens will be held accountable for their actions, pursued by our investigators and prosecutors, and brought to justice.

  

  Dana Boente
  • World
  • Justice
  • Matter

• If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

  

  Joe Mantello