Alan Borovoy Quotes

I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.

Alan Borovoy

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• As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

  

  Randall Park
  • Comedy
  • See
  • Stereotypes

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Time
  • House
  • Best

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Couple
  • Close
  • West

• I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Actor

• I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Love
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Necessary

• I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Feel

• Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Legal
  • Bitcoin

• I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Game

• If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Quality

• Indeed I do and I admire it. I am a practicing Catholic.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Catholic

• 'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Important
  • Girl

• We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

  

  Alan Keyes

• He puts his bones back on,Turning the clock back an hour.She knows flesh, that skin balloon,the unbound limbs, the boards,the roof, the removable roof.She is his selection, part time.You know the story too! Look,when it is over he places her,like a phone, back on the hook.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Time
  • She

• Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.

  

  James Carville

• People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.

  

  Jim Lovell
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Knowledge
  • Running
  • Wisdom

• I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People
  • Music
  • True

• I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.

  

  Alan Borovoy
  • Heaven
  • Hell
  • Reducing