Michael Chertoff Quotes

There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.

Michael Chertoff

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• I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Difficult

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Child

• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Alone
  • Schizophrenia
  • Dining

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• 'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Military

• A shady business never yields a sunny life.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Business
  • Shady

• If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Run
  • Village

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

  

  Quintilian
  • Genius
  • Maturity
  • Ever

• I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Love
  • Night
  • Ahead

• I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Really
  • Go
  • Fortunate

• Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Children
  • Art
  • Parents

• My favorite color is light pink.  I also like baby blue because it brings out my eyes.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Baby

• Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.

  

  Lord Byron

• For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God

• I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration.

  

  Douglas Davis
  • People
  • Sun

• I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about race. To my mind, it was more about telling stories of people who existed outside the mainstream's field of vision. Invisible people.

  

  Alex Tizon
  • People
  • Mind
  • Vision

• Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.

  

  Kelly McCreary
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, … I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

  

  James Spader
  • World
  • Different
  • Interesting

• There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films - control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.

  

  Michael Chertoff
  • World
  • Vacation
  • Terrorism