Allen Grossman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
People take things so seriously.
-
We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
-
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
-
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
-
Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
-
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
-
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
-
The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
-
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
-
In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
-
My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
-
I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
-
My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
-
I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
-
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
-
We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
-
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
-
Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
-
First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.
-
Art is an amazing form of being able to share our experiences and tell stories and hopefully relate to other people, but you don't know how everyone else is always going to react to what you put out there.
-
Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come.
-
That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.
-
If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.
-
A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.
