Joel Siegel Quotes

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

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• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Appearance

• You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Up
  • Music
  • City

• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • More
  • Exciting
  • Smaller

• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Very
  • Matters
  • Pass

• My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Need

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I love zoo sanctuaries.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • I Love
  • Zoo
  • Sanctuaries

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Guy
  • Director
  • Easygoing

• The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Sin

• In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Great
  • Believe
  • High

• Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Writing
  • Story

• My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Me

• Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Job
  • American
  • Growth

• If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

  

  Katie Price
  • Business

• In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

  

  John Taylor Gatto
  • Work
  • School
  • Home

• The Seventies were just an interesting time for us because we were building the brand of the name but also varying the style of the music on each of the albums we did. Very creative time of us.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.

  

  Bruno Maag
  • Running
  • Value
  • Design

• I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Life
  • Why
  • Job

• Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

  

  Joel Siegel
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