Joseph Lelyveld Quotes

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

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• I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Purpose

• The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Job
  • Same

• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  

  M. Ward
  • Good
  • American
  • Sometimes

• I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Me

• Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Good
  • Me
  • Space

• If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Changes
  • Kill
  • Shape

• Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Kind
  • Same
  • Heroes

• Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Home
  • Present
  • Teacher

• Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Baby
  • Perspective
  • They Say

• I gotta shake hands with himǃ That's one guy I know I'm better lookin' than.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Guy

• 3) Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don't.

  

  Larry Niven

• A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • People
  • Men
  • Interesting

• Todo es un poco de oscuridad, hasta la misma luz.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Great
  • Passion

• Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Trump

• My first introduction to South Africa's struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother's stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she was unable to attend on that occasion.

  

  Bernice King
  • She
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• When I look at a woman through my camera, I see her with complete admiration and appreciation of her beauty, strength, and power - and that's how I do my best to represent her.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Power
  • Appreciation

• I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair.

  

  J. Cole

• I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Perfect

• I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan
  • City
  • Chicago

• Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • People
  • School
  • Environment

• Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Care

• If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

  

  Joseph Lelyveld
  • Life
  • Expert
  • Reporter