Paul Rand (Peretz Rosenbaum) Quotes

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

Paul Rand

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• I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • City
  • Creativity

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Good
  • Me
  • Doing

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Myself

• Humor is a part of spirituality.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Humor
  • Part
  • Spirituality

• My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • College
  • First
  • Classmates

• I have to stand up for myself... I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • She

• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I was never able to praybut let me inscribe my namein the book of waves.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Book
  • Waves

• Non vi vieto per questo (ch'avrei torto)Che vi lasciate amar; che senza amanteSareste come inculta vite in orto,Che non ha palo ove s'appoggi o piante.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Real
  • Improvement

• I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

  

  David Chase
  • Children

• America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Heart
  • America
  • Taken

• Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with another team, with one of the lowest payrolls in the game. Really, I'm not that interesting.

  

  Billy Beane
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • True
  • Dream
  • Wish

• I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Small

• I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • Christian
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Great
  • Free
  • Foundation

• When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Reading
  • Demon

• I enjoyed playing with the guys in Free Spirit so much because they really dug into Free material, and I really liked how they expressed it. They have a lot of dynamics.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Free

• You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

  

  Paul Rand
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Understanding