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

• 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

• 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

• Strive to be authentic, not perfect.

  

  Amy Chan
  • Perfect
  • Strive
  • Authentic

• Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

  

  Albion W. Small
  • Society
  • Modern
  • Sociology

• I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Game
  • Way
  • Hustle

• I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Kind
  • Reflection
  • Boat

• When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We learned to control clay, to put it where you want it and not just wherever it wanted to go, and that was valuable. At the end of about six months, though, I think if that was all we had, we may have been inclined to leave because the workshop did not challenge us so much as living with Bernard Leach did.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Challenges
  • Valuable
  • Pot

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

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Plans
  • Monsoons