Saul Steinberg Quotes
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.Saul Steinberg
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
Karan Johar -
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
Samantha Power -
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Yasser Arafat -
President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
Foster Friess -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
V. S. Naipaul
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
Saint Ignatius -
If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
Magic Johnson -
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
Mahmoud Darwish -
I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
Vincent Cassel -
In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
Pankaj Mishra
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
Jack Keane -
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
N. Scott Momaday -
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
Rachel Kushner -
Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
Abraham Lincoln
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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.
Anna Kendrick -
The best way to honor someone who has passed is to live.
Marvin Sapp -
Energy is not a political issue for the Modi government. It is our commitment to provide electricity to every household of the country.
Piyush Goyal -
Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.
Regina Spektor -
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
Saul Steinberg