Spalding Gray Quotes

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Family
  • Happy

• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Father
  • Think
  • Son

• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
  • More

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Hope
  • Daughter
  • Idea

• The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Work
  • Important
  • Control

• Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Parents

• The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

  

  Rita Ora

• The power to investigate is a great public trust.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Great
  • Power
  • Trust

• I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

  

  Patti Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • Father

• As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Job
  • Emotional
  • Journey

• The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.

  

  Jill Greenberg
  • War
  • Environment

• The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

  

  Marlon Brando

• There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Hilarious
  • Lyric

• My job, originally, was to write blog posts for their 'HubSpot' blog. They have a business model built on content. Then I was writing e-books for them, and after I came back from L.A., they had this new plan to launch a podcast.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Job

• If the Latterday Saints had not abandoned plural marriage, they would have remained a fringe religion and would never have moved into mainstream American culture. Today, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thrives. It is one of the fastest growing religions in the country and is the most successful American-born religion.

  

  David Ebershoff
  • Country
  • American
  • Today

• The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

  

  Bill Vaughan

• If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Men
  • Bad

• As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably a very good reason Hunter [S. Thompson] isn't jealous of me.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

  

  Werner Herzog
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Class

• Starting in the wake of the 2008 GFC (Global Financial Crisis), market observers have warned of a crash in the bond market. Initially, it was believed that the trillions printed to bail out the banks would cause inflation and, therefore, a flight from bonds.

  

  Max Keiser
  • Financial

• I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Thinking
  • Vegetables