I. L. Peretz Quotes

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

I. L. Peretz

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• The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Shoes
  • Sexy

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Experience
  • Failure
  • End

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• Every time you get something, give something away.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Time
  • You
  • Give

• For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Act

• If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Face

• With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Long
  • Book

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Think
  • Secure

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

  

  Arthur Keith

• Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

  

  George Murray
  • Respect
  • Poetry

• All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Friends
  • Rock
  • Criticism

• To the extent America abandons Israel, it abandons itself.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • America

• Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Mother
  • Prayer
  • Baby