Faina Ranevskaya Quotes

When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.

Faina Ranevskaya

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• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

• There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Learn
  • Goal
  • Company

• Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • She
  • America
  • Same

• It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.

  

  Washed Out
  • Done
  • Start
  • Therapy

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Shame
  • Privacy
  • Ghetto

• Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.

  

  OMI
  • Important
  • Roots
  • Stay Focused

• No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • War
  • Peace

• I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Moral
  • Model
  • Leadership

• My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Small
  • Know
  • English

• I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

  

  Vanna White
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Perfect
  • Myself

• Partnerships like those remind us that the relationship between nations is not just defined by governments, but is defined by people - especially the young people who will determine the future long after those of us who are currently in positions of power leave the stage.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• 'I don't see much sense in that,' said Rabbit.'No,' said Pooh humbly, 'there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Helping
  • Healing
  • Method

• My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Reading

• But to call it looking was like calling an eighteen-course feast a snack.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Feast
  • Snack
  • Eighteen-course

• When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya