Eugene Ionesco Quotes

I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

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• Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Free
  • Me
  • Always

• Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Intelligent
  • Software

• 'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Environment
  • Stressful
  • SNL

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • New York

• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Brave

• Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Training

• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Unique
  • Hard
  • Come

• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Acting

• Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Women
  • Myself

• Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Love
  • Today

• I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Day
  • Golf

• The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • Political
  • Energy

• We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • World
  • Born
  • Profit

• In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • House
  • Parents
  • Years

• My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Risk
  • Years
  • Parent

• I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.

  

  Daul Kim
  • Hate
  • Forget
  • Miserable

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Believe
  • True

• I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Years
  • Forget