Mona Simpson Quotes

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Live
  • Child
  • Loved

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• All our wives are experimental psychologists.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Our
  • Wives
  • Experimental

• I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Need
  • Stage
  • Fix

• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Fire
  • Trouble
  • Shells

• I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Better
  • Television
  • Try

• Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Environment
  • Difficult
  • Meet

• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Children

• At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words.

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • School
  • She
  • Words

• When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.

  

  Brandon Jennings
  • Family
  • Game

• Personally, I'd have a baby just for the epidural.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Baby

• Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

  

  Mason Cooley

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• The whole process of winning the pageant has been so amazing, I'm really excited to move forward into all kinds of projects.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Amazing
  • Winning
  • Process

• Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Up
  • Home
  • Dad

• You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Fall
  • Athlete
  • Bird

• Jews allow to steal lands from Palestinians, only because they are Jews, and those are Palestinian. I want to repeat it, because people here in America don't believe it. We have a new law that settlers allowed to steal private lands of Arabs and take it to Jews. This is an official law. And now they're going to ban everyone who criticize a pure apartheid law. So, in a way, it's horrific. It's only everyone who stand for civil right in the minimum level - liberals, not radical - is not allowed to Israel.

  

  Udi Aloni
  • Jews
  • Steal
  • Lands

• Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • People
  • Parent
  • Ruined