Alexandra Pelosi Quotes
There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!
Quotes to Explore
-
Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
-
The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
-
I've never been a size 0.
-
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
-
What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.
-
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
-
You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.
-
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.
-
Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.
-
If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to?
-
Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.
-
In adversity man is saved by hope.
-
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
-
As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
-
An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.
-
We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.
-
It's not an easy topic because it gets at some fairly delicate issues. The source of some of the smuggling, who's involved, means it is probably not that easy a topic to tackle.
-
History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
-
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.
-
There's a lot of documentaries out in the world; it sometimes seems as if there's no topic left!
