Simon Helberg (Simon Maxwell Helberg) Quotes

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

Simon Helberg

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• What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Tomorrow

• Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Jewelry

• In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Pretty
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Change
  • Stand

• There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Heroic

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Daily

• I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Good
  • Job
  • Song

• I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Man
  • Playing
  • Intention

• I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Emotional

• Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Violence
  • Dumb

• Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Together

• The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.

  

  Jenny Han
  • American
  • Girl

• If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • People
  • Fun

• We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • People
  • Country

• Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Tradition
  • Slave
  • Autobiography

• I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Singing
  • Inspiration
  • Girls

• The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Sound

• People have to respect intellectual property.

  

  Coco Lee
  • People
  • Respect

• Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Up
  • Great
  • Parents

• There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

  

  Simon Helberg
  • Parents
  • Heroes
  • Fallible