Jordana Spiro Quotes

The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

Jordana Spiro

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • God
  • Right

• I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Old

• I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Cool
  • Thought
  • Weird

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Soviet
  • FBI
  • July

• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Love
  • Body
  • Female

• I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Movie
  • Kind

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.

  

  Laird Barron
  • God
  • Mom
  • Fire

• I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • She
  • Think

• If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Understand

• I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Job
  • Want

• When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Mother
  • Deep
  • Electricity

• I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • School
  • High
  • City

• My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Time
  • Ugly
  • Swing

• I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Art
  • Book
  • Amazing

• The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Truth

• If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Religion
  • Ancient
  • Churches

• Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.

  

  William Empson
  • Different
  • Christian
  • Communist

• I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Written

• The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • Good
  • Nature

• I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Hate
  • Proud
  • Stupid

• The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

  

  Jordana Spiro