Melissa Bank Quotes

You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Broadway
  • Toy

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Past

• I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Looking

• Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Television
  • Lucky

• When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Cancer

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Me
  • Jazz
  • Ride

• I love '80s horror.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Horror

• You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power

• The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Simple

• I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Future
  • Science
  • Present

• The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • World
  • Transformation

• Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.

  

  Benjamin Graham

• The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Work
  • Job

• Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • American

• If you wonder why urban young black women are allowing themselves to be victimized by Planned Parenthood, look at BET, which is owned by very wealthy white Democrats.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Women
  • Why
  • Black

• Down the country, people in rural areas are struggling to get a speed of even 1 MB, not much better than the old dial-up system we used to have when the system was in relative infancy.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut

• American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • American
  • Relationship
  • Israel

• You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Wonder
  • Dangerous
  • Safer