I. L. Peretz Quotes

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

I. L. Peretz

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• Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Everyday

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Where love is, there God is also.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Never
  • Race
  • Club

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Long
  • Government
  • Internet

• Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Career
  • Interesting

• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Unhappy

• The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Remember

• There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Believing
  • Liberal

• People automatically assume that because you're an actor, you're a blank canvas 24/7. But I can't wear what everyone else wears. If I went to an audition, I'd wear what the character would wear, but the moment I'm done with the audition or done filming, I go back into my high-waisteds.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Done
  • Character

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Man
  • Always
  • Cut

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• One of my earliest memories is being inside the recording studio and I see the shadow of a figure that looks an awful lot like Walt Disney. Then the door opened and Mr. Disney walked in and said, 'Hi Clint.' I won't ever forget that.

  

  Clint Howard
  • Memories
  • Door
  • Shadow

• I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

  

  Johnny Carson

• Love says, mine. Love says, I could eat you up. Love says, stay as you are, be my own private thing, don't you dare have ideas I don't share. Love has just got to gobble the other, bones and all, crunch. I don't want to do that. I sure don't want it done to me!

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Up
  • Love
  • Done

• The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Business
  • House
  • Running

• As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Work

• A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • House
  • Bricks