John Avlon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
-
I always played to win.
-
In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
-
When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
-
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
-
I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
-
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
-
I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
-
My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
-
Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
-
First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
-
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
-
I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
-
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
-
I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
-
I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
-
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
-
New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
-
I hope I'm always learning something.
-
I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
-
I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
-
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
-
I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
-
Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.
