Roland Joffe Quotes

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

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• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Me
  • Asked
  • Tested

• Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Respect
  • Jesus

• There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Important
  • Job

• I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Design

• My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Up
  • She
  • American

• No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • People
  • Words
  • Nasty

• Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Peace
  • Health

• There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hippie

• We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • History
  • Retirement
  • Surplus

• Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

  

  Mabel Collins
  • Life

• Me?" All the crappiness of the day, of the last few weeks, zeroed in on this high and mighty B with an itch, and the scared-rabbit feeling faded.

  

  Christie Craig
  • High
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• Conservatism is the politics of reality

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Reality
  • Conservatism

• Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Difficult

• Wandering creates the desert.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Desert
  • Creates
  • Wandering

• The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Plans
  • Stumble Upon

• Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Family
  • Love
  • Character

• In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Plans
  • Monsoons