Stephen Tobolowsky (Stephen Harold Tobolowsky) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		The element that people don't consider is that a friendship is about the only relationship we experience that is mutually voluntary. It is not really bound by family, money, or jobs. It is only bound by inclination. Once that is gone. It is gone. It feels powerful… it's not. It is delicate.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Stephen Tobolowsky 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laura Dern 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vik Muniz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carl Friedrich Gauss 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Warren Ellis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lady Gaga 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fatema Mernissi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		No, it doesn't affect my morale. Because life must go on. I would pick up a paper or a derogatory article and stick it in my bathroom or my desk and see it every morning. I look at it as something that has to be overcome- (On his reaction to the abuse and ridicule in the Press). 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Amitabh Bachchan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ken Jennings 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Without the meed of some melodious tear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John Milton 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Arlie Russell Hochschild 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Peter Orszag 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The element that people don't consider is that a friendship is about the only relationship we experience that is mutually voluntary. It is not really bound by family, money, or jobs. It is only bound by inclination. Once that is gone. It is gone. It feels powerful… it's not. It is delicate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Stephen Tobolowsky