Ilan Stavans Quotes

American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Values
  • Talking

• Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Listen

• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Looking
  • Against
  • Phone

• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Best
  • Beauty

• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Confidence

• Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Future
  • Overpopulation

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
  • Talk

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Support

• If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Where
  • Temple
  • Idol

• A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • She
  • Job
  • Professional

• Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Pain
  • Head
  • What If

• When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Up
  • Trump

• A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Blood

• I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

  

  Charley Pride
  • Up
  • Father

• A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • World
  • War
  • Free

• What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are still the best-dressed.

  

  Francoise Gilot
  • Women
  • She
  • American

• American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • American
  • Colors