Kaija Saariaho Quotes

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Grace
  • Shot
  • Even

• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

  Zendaya
  • Done
  • She
  • Think

• Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • History
  • Age
  • Disasters

• This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Help
  • Realize

• We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • American
  • Positive
  • Legal

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

  

  T.I.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Way

• The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Support
  • Government

• For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Time
  • War
  • End

• A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Hair
  • Someone
  • Intimacy

• Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Virtue
  • Reward
  • Itself

• Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • Book
  • Science
  • Education

• Let's say you would see me in a lot more big movies had I done movies that I'd been asked to do playing bad guys. Now that I have a child on the way, I think that you'll probably be seeing me play more bad guys. If that's what's going to put bread on the table, that's what I'm going to be doing.

  

  Jake Busey
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  • Bad

• Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Money
  • Art

• We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Death
  • Die
  • Joy

• Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

  

  Kaija Saariaho
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