Ilan Stavans Quotes

'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

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• When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Music
  • Thought

• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Story
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• Speech happens to not be his language.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Language
  • Happens
  • Speech

• I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Me

• Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • World
  • Rest
  • Language

• I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Power
  • Hope

• A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Technology
  • Dark
  • Progress

• I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Like
  • Marvel

• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Movie
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• Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Love
  • House
  • Always

• From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Perspective
  • Born
  • Try

• In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dumb
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• I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Like

• In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Kind
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• I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Fear
  • Decision
  • Creative

• Gluttony is not a secret vice.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Secret
  • Vice
  • Gluttony

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Bad
  • Community
  • Failure

• Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

  

  Dirk Kempthorne
  • Faith
  • Community
  • Alone

• You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • People
  • World
  • Community

• It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• 'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Community
  • Government
  • Feel