Michael Paterniti Quotes

I feel so disassociated from my writing - whether it's in book form or magazine - that I sometimes have a hard time believing that it's mine.

Michael Paterniti

• Writing
• Sometimes
• Believing
• Magazine
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• The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Heart
  • War
  • Argument

• You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Up
  • Good
  • May

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Work
  • Education
  • Myself

• I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Fall

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Want
  • Sexy

• We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Travel
  • Daily
  • Charity

• The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a free and open society. The best defense against such attacks is good intelligence, and that often comes from inside the Muslim community.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Good
  • Society
  • Free

• When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • Country
  • Family
  • She

• You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'

  

  Louis Susman
  • Done
  • Wish

• Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Bad

• I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Weird

• I think that any channel, whether it's Fox, CNN, or whatever, if they were truly giving a 360-view of what's going on, we would be better equipped to not slap judgments on people we really don't understand.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Giving

• Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

  

  Franklin Raines

• Scaling is multidimensional. Different methods address different things.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Different

• I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • Gun
  • Texas

• Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Country
  • Sometimes
  • Christmas

• If I can feel freedom then I can create.

  

  Marc Newson
  • Freedom

• My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Trump

• There is no question that mistakes were made; however, it is currently hard to separate fact from fictions and reality from rhetoric.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • Reality
  • Question
  • Mistakes

• I feel so disassociated from my writing - whether it's in book form or magazine - that I sometimes have a hard time believing that it's mine.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Believing