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

• 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

• In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • War
  • Government
  • Present

• Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that he is very exact and does many things, or that he fasts twice in the week, and gives tithes of all he possesses, but that he is sinless.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Men
  • Works
  • Experts

• I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Singing
  • Chance
  • Vocal

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

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Plans
  • Monsoons