Kate Bernheimer Quotes

It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

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• To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
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• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
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• When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Time
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  • American

• To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Done
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• My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Music
  • Father
  • Me

• I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Men
  • Look
  • Old

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Shirts
  • Drives
  • Jackets

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • School
  • Friends
  • Me

• While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
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• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Successful
  • First

• Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Happy
  • Growing
  • Be Happy

• Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cutting

• My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Free
  • Practice

• Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Speak
  • Deal
  • Wizard

• Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Writers
  • Reporters
  • Prophets

• It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
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