Michael Mandelbaum Quotes

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

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• I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • American
  • Parents

• When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Enjoy
  • Situation
  • Kid

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• We should all love animals.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Love
  • Should
  • Animals

• We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Family
  • You
  • Community

• People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Business
  • Help

• When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Coach

• My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Time
  • Favorite
  • Skin

• I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • You
  • Racism
  • Now

• ...I simply don’t want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a pair of scissors in my hands becomes a dangerous weapon.

  

  Jean Patou
  • Design

• If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

  

  Arthur Bloch
  • Long

• I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

  

  Audie Murphy
  • Long
  • Space
  • Taken

• I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Stop
  • Mad

• I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Career

• If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Financial

• I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.

  

  John David Washington
  • People
  • Black

• My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Parents
  • Golf
  • Interest

• I still don't like going to bed alone.

  

  James Franco
  • Alone

• We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Life
  • Priority

• People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

  

  Michael Mandelbaum
  • People
  • Should