Joseph Kanon Quotes

At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

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• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Looking
  • Big
  • Market

• The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • People
  • Strong
  • Faith

• I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Down

• Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Important
  • Powerful
  • Dreams

• I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

  

  Young Buck
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Maybe

• I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Me
  • Touch

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Try

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Energy

• I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Poor
  • Projects

• I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Day
  • Guitar
  • Relax

• I joined a band to hit things.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Band
  • Things
  • Hit

• I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Son

• Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.

  

  Corey Stoll
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Money
  • Job

• I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Why
  • Fall

• At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

  

  Joseph Kanon
  • Job
  • Degree
  • Publishing