Kai Bird Quotes
One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.Kai Bird
Quotes to Explore
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
Pat Travers -
If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
Carlos Alazraqui -
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
Irving Thalberg -
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo -
I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
Mandy Patinkin -
The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
Naveen Jain
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan -
I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
Oscar Nunez -
Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
Hari Kunzru -
I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
Oksana Baiul -
People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
Warren Rudman -
As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
Kangana Ranaut -
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
Yoko Ono -
OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
Larry David -
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
Rachel Kushner
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I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.
Jane Siberry -
My kids and I live like three fun-loving hermits. We're quite bohemian.
Amrita Singh -
In these circumstances, the FOMC judged that some further firming of monetary policy may be necessary, an assessment with which I concur.
Ben Bernanke -
If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.
Mandy Patinkin -
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce -
One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
Kai Bird