Mitchell Reiss Quotes

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

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• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Important
  • Fun
  • City

• We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • People
  • Way
  • Better

• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Painting
  • Environmental

• If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Afraid

• I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Want
  • Convince

• I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Today
  • Strong
  • Land

• I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Famous
  • Blue

• There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Lost

• I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Beauty

• Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Will
  • Loyalty
  • Changing

• As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Different
  • Want
  • Play

• The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Country
  • Revolution

• The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.

  

  Adam Smith

• Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Done
  • Vampire

• About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Reading

• If you're going to play football, why not be the best at it that you can be and fulfill your potential?

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Why
  • Football

• For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Men
  • Commitment
  • Existence

• I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

  

  Willie Geist
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • President

• Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Done
  • Rudeness

• You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

  

  Mitchell Reiss
  • Done
  • Matter
  • Made